For the final three decades of his life, the self-taught Dutch artist Joris Hoefnagel drew his way through the known natural world, one creature at a time. The result was a multi-volume manuscript, ...

Connecting you to the nature in your neighborhood...and the world. The Hefner Museum of Natural History uses exhibits, collections and specimens, and interactive programs to teach visitors of all ages ...

Four years ago, the Halls of Gems and Minerals at New York’s American Museum of Natural History closed for long-overdue renovations. The cavelike space, deliberately designed to evoke the feeling of ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cleveland Museum of Natural History received global recognition as one of the world’s most beautiful museums. The museum’s $150 million architectural redesign and commitment to ...

Jan Augustin van der Goes, Autographa gamma moth (1690 – 1700), Rijksmuseum (via OpenUp) From rows of tiny pinned insects to drawers of stuffed birds of prey, the holdings of natural history museums ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History will reopen to the public Friday, June 18, with new hours, free timed-entry passes and health-and-safety procedures in place. Visitors will see ...

Art has long been incredibly important to the development of science, as shown in the Natural Histories: 400 Years of Scientific Illustration from the Museum’s Library exhibition now at the American ...

A new exhibition reflects on the haunting aesthetics of human impact on the planet Roger Catlin | Museums Correspondent Talk about unsettled. Just as a new exhibition titled “Unsettled Nature” that ...

On Monday, the museum unveiled the opening date of its Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education and Innovation and shared details of what it will contain. By Robin Pogrebin A rendering of the ...

The Museum of Natural History was founded in 1956, though the university began collecting and storing artifacts and specimens as early as 1837. Then called the Exhibit Museum, it was officially ...

Located on the campus of the University of Nevada, Reno, the Museum of Natural History holds irreplaceable specimens of plants and animals used in research, teaching, and outreach. Collections date ...