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scaurum

September 10, 2021

The Copenhagen Zoological Museum (Zoologisk Museum), together with the Botanical and Geological Museums, form the Danish State Natural History Museum in Copenhagen (Universitsparken 15). It belongs to the University of Copenhagen.

Its origins go back to the rarities and natural objects cabinet of Ole Worm (1588–1654), which was partially bought up by the Danish King Friedrich III after his death and incorporated into his art chamber. In 1862, the Royal Natural History Museum (the successor to the Kunstkammer) and the University's Zoological Collection became the Zoological Museum with a new building in Krystalgade, which was opened to the public in 1870. In 1967 the museum, whose collections had been relocated and the exhibition was out of date, was closed and in 1970 a new museum was opened in the university park.

The museum has around 10 million specimens of animals, representing about a tenth of the known multicellular animal species. Besides Denmark and Greenland or the Arctic, deep sea, Philippines, Bismarck Islands and Solomon Islands, a large whale skeleton, South American butterflies and mammals, East Africa (amphibians, reptiles, terrestrial arthropods) are some of the focal points.

The museum also houses the type collection of Johann Christian Fabricius with 8000 species (from around 1800). A special collection is the tissue bank with DNA material especially from birds (over 3000 species) and African mammals.

The museum is the center of Danish bird ringing.

Attached is a library with over 15,000 volumes and 750 current journals.

The university's other natural history collections are in the Geological Museum (Geologisk Museum, Øster Voldgade) and in the Botanical Museum, which is located in the Botanical Garden (Botanisk Have).

(Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoologisches_Museum_Kopenhagen)

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March 17, 2022

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Natural History Museum of Denmark – Zoological Museum

1. The Little Mermaid – Nyhavn loop from Vesterport

2. Nyhavn – Cirkelbroen (The Circle Bridge) loop from Svanemøllen

3. Rosenborg Castle – The Round Tower (Rundetårn) loop from Københavns Hovedbanegård

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