Description of the attraction
The Canadian Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The museum is located on McLeod Street, in a historic building known as the Victoria Memorial. For the first time, the museum opened its doors to visitors on July 1, 1990.
The collection of minerals and rocks occupies an important place in the exposition of the museum. Actually, it is precisely the impressive collection of the Geological Survey of Canada, the collection of which began in 1856 and became the basis of the museum collection. The extensive collection of minerals includes over 5,000 radioactive specimens and over 2,000 gemstone specimens.
The collection of fossils presented in the museum contains more than 50,000 samples of vertebrate fossils from the Devonian to the Pleistocene - these are reptiles of the Cretaceous period, including an impressive collection of dinosaurs, Neogene mammals, fish of the Devonian and Cretaceous periods. There is also a small but very valuable collection of Canada's Cretaceous and Neogene fossil plants, a collection of fossil fungi, and a collection of pollen and spore fossils - the best of its kind in Canada.
Undoubtedly, the zoological collection of the museum deserves special attention. The collection of invertebrates is represented by annelids (annelids or annelids), molluscs, crustaceans, insects and parasites. The collection of vertebrates will tell about fish, amphibians and reptiles, birds and mammals.
Presented at the Canadian Museum of Nature and the National Herbarium of Canada. The herbarium contains more than 575,000 specimens of vascular plants, including 2,500 type specimens (objective carriers of the scientific name of a species or subspecies of living organisms), more than 110,000 lichen specimens, including 750 type specimens, as well as an impressive collection of bryophytes - about 225,000 real mosses or bryophytes, 25000 - liver mosses and 950 type specimens. The collection of algae presented in the museum is the National Collection of Algae of Canada and includes 65,000 specimens and 300 type specimens.
The museum's library contains more than 35,000 volumes on biology, botany, ecology, natural history, mineralogy and other areas of knowledge, giving us an idea of the development of life on earth. The museum's library and archives also house an impressive selection of periodicals, manuscripts, monographs, scientific research and more.
For convenience and more informational content, the permanent exhibition of the museum is divided into thematic galleries (gallery of birds, gallery of minerals, gallery of fossils, gallery of mammals, water gallery, etc.).
