Belgrade Natural History Museum
The Belgrade Natural History Museum (Serbian Prirodnjački muzej Beograd) is a Serbian state natural history museum in Belgrade , which also includes a research and educational facility for bio and geosciences (subject areas: zoology , botany , geology and paleontology , including derived disciplines such as ecology ). The museum, founded in 1895, is subordinate to the Serbian Ministry of Education, Research and the Environment. It has, among other things, collections on mineralogy, petrology, molluscs, insects, birds, mammals such as the general herbarium of the Balkan Peninsula with a focus on around 1,500,000 exhibits from the former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece and Albania. The museum does not have a permanent public showroom, but there is a smaller gallery on Little Kalemegdan for exhibitions. ⊙
The main location of the museum in Belgrade is at Njegoševa ulica 51 ⊙ , in the Vračar district not far from Slavija and the Cathedral of St. Sava . The Natural History Museum has published the "Bulletin of the Natural History Museum in Belgrade" since 1958.
The spectacular finds of mammoths in loess series in the open-cast mine near Kostolac in recent years were particularly effective in the media . An almost intact skeleton of a southern elephant ( Mammuthus meridionalis ) called "Vika" was roofed over with a pavilion at the site of the excavation and has been preserved as an exhibition area.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Politika, December 19, 2010 Prirodnjacki muzej 115 godina postojanja
- ↑ Website of the Belgrade Natural History Museum
- ^ Gallery of the Natural History Museum Belgrade
- ↑ Thomas Roser: Mighty fossil mammoth discovered in Serbia In: Die Welt Online , July 5, 2009
- ^ The Telegraph, June 28, 2012 Mammoth graveyard discovered in Serbia
- ↑ Mammoth Vika
- ↑ n-TV, online September 17, 2009 Sensational discovery mammoth "Vika" died in the swamp
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