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(Local Name: Naturhistorisches Museum) The Natural History Museum in Vienna is the counterpart of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, which lies directly opposite. It was designed, like the latter, by G. Semper and K. Hasenauer and was completed in 1881. The exhibits are displayed in 39 galleries and a domed hall, and now form one of the major European natural history collections. The collection was founded by Francis I, the consort of Maria Theresa who opened it to the public in 1765. The exhibits have been on show in the present building since 1889, and the layouts have been constantly extended and modernized.
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Attractions within Natural History Museum

Natural History Museum (Anthropological Department)

Anthropological Department (Upper Ground Floor) Rooms 16 and 17 of the Vienna Natural History Museum: The Osteological Collection includes a great number of human skulls from the Neo-Palaeolithic
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Natural History Museum (Botanical Exhibition Gallery)

Botanical Exhibition Gallery (First Floor) Room 21 at Vienna's Natural History Museum has models of fungi and forms of spores.

Natural History Museum (Children's Room)

Children's Room (Upper Ground Floor) Room 18 at the Vienna Natural History Museum is where children can enjoy colored picture books, play with microscopes and video recorders and carry out their own natural history research.

Natural History Museum (Domed Hall)

Domed Hall (First Floor) of Vienna's Natural History Museum has a skeleton of an extinct species of sea-cow (manatee).

Natural History Museum (Geological and Palaeontological Department)

Geological and Palaeontological Department (Upper Ground Floor) Rooms 6 to 10 (6 to 9 closed during 1995 for conversion work) at the Vienna Natural History Museum has fossils and petrified skeletons
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Natural History Museum (Mineralogical and Petrographical Department / Upper Ground Floor)

In Vienna's Natural History Museum in Rooms 1 to 5 are the nucleus is the collection of minerals, with many examples from Austria, and materials used in many Viennese buildings, such as the
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Natural History Museum (Prehistory Department)

At the Vienna Natural History Museum in the Prehistory Department (Upper Ground Floor) Rooms 11 to 15 finds from excavations in Austria are displayed, dating from the Stone Age to the Early Middle
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Natural History Museum (Zoological Department)

In Vienna's Natural History Museum's Zoological Department (First Floor) Rooms 22 to 39 is the collection which illustrates in impressive fashion the long evolution from the single cell to
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Natural History Museum - Dinosaur Collection

A small Struthiosaurus is to be found in the collection.
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Address
Vienna - Natural History Museum
Burgring 7
A-1014 Wien
Austria
http://www.nhm-wien.ac.at
Hours
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
Open9:00Closed9:009:009:009:009:00
Closed21:0018:3018:3018:3018:3018:30
Always closed on:
New Year's Day (January 1)
May Day / Labor Day (May 1)
All Saints' Day - Christian (November 1)
Christmas - Christian (December 25)
Cost
Adult8.00 Euros
Senior6.00 Euros
Child 14 & under3.50 Euros
Child 5 & underFREE
Family16.00 Euros
Tips
In winter, first floor open only 9am to 3 p.m.
Disabled
Full facilities for persons with disabilities.
Facilities
Gift shop
Restaurant or food service
Transit
U-Bahn: Volkstheater (U2); Bus: 2A; Tram: 1, 2, D, J.
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