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National Museum of Natural History (Naturalis)

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National Museum of Natural History (Naturalis)
National Museum of Natural History (Naturalis)
National Museum of Natural History (Naturalis)
National Museum of Natural History (Naturalis)
National Museum of Natural History (Naturalis)
National Museum of Natural History (Naturalis)
National Museum of Natural History (Naturalis)
National Museum of Natural History (Naturalis)
National Museum of Natural History (Naturalis)
National Museum of Natural History (Naturalis)
National Museum of Natural History (Naturalis)
National Museum of Natural History (Naturalis)
National Museum of Natural History (Naturalis)
National Museum of Natural History (Naturalis)
National Museum of Natural History (Naturalis)
Phone:
+31 71 568 7600

Address:
Darwinweg 2, 2300 RA, Leiden, The Netherlands

The Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie was a museum on the Rapenburg in Leiden, The Netherlands. It was founded in 1820 by Royal Decree from a merger of several existing collections. This happened on the initiative of Coenraad Jacob Temminck, who saw the museum primarily as a research institute for the University of Leiden. The total collection was already quite large at the time, and continued to grow from foreign expeditions and by obtaining private collections from inheritances. The location is currently used by the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden.
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