NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM

Description

Essentials about the National History Museum in brief

The Natural History Museum (NHM) in Vienna is one of the most important natural history museums in the world with around 30 million collection objects and is one of the largest museums in Austria. The NHM houses some world-famous and unique exhibits, such as the almost 30,000-year-old Venus of Willendorf, the Steller’s sea cow, which became extinct over 200 years ago, or giant dinosaur skeletons.

The collections of the National History Museum

Other highlights of the museum include the world’s largest and oldest collection of meteorite displays, the permanent anthropological exhibition on the origins and development of mankind, and the prehistoric showrooms. In addition to the exhibits in the showrooms, the relatively new Digital Planetarium, which takes visitors to the edge of the Milky Way galaxy or to Saturn’s rings with fulldome projection technology, also inspires visitors.

The building of the National History Museum

Like the opposite “mirror image” of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Naturhistorisches Museum also impresses with its imposing building, which was completed and opened in 1889. Especially the richly decorated ceiling of the entrance hall and the dome above are worth a look.