Natural History Museum, Vienna

Natural History Museum
Naturhistorisches Museum
The phrase "Naturhistorisches Museum Wien" next to the stylized lowercase letters "n", "h", and "m", above three dots.
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Establishedbetween 1872 and 1889
LocationVienna, Austria
DirectorKatrin Vohland
Websitenhm-wien.ac.at/en

The Natural History Museum Vienna (German: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien) is a large natural history museum located in Vienna, Austria.[1][2]

The NHM Vienna is one of the largest museums and non-university research institutions in Austria and an important center of excellence for all matters relating to natural sciences. The museum's 39 exhibition rooms cover 8,460 square meters and present more than 100,000 objects. It is home to 30 million objects available to more than 60 scientists and numerous guest researchers who carry out basic research in a wide range of topics related to human sciences, earth sciences, and life sciences.[3]

The Index Herbariorum code assigned to this museum is W[4] and it is used when citing housed herbarium specimens.

  1. ^ (in German) NHM-Wien-overview, "Museum of Natural History in Vienna" (overview), Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, 2011. [verification needed]
  2. ^ NHM-Wien-preview-English, "Museum of Natural History in Vienna" (English overview), Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, 2011. [verification needed]
  3. ^ Jovanovic-Kruspel, Stefanie (2012). Natural History Museum Vienna - A guide to the collections. Wien: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien. pp. 5, 7.
  4. ^ "Index Herbariorum". Steere Herbarium, New York Botanical Garden. Retrieved 29 November 2021.