Natural History Museum of Ege University ( tr, Ege Universitesi Doğa Tarihi Müzesi) is a university museum in

İzmir İzmir ( , ; ), also spelled Izmir, is a metropolitan city in the western extremity of Anatolia, capital of the province of the same name. It is the third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara and the second largest urban aggl ...

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...

. The museum is in the campus of the

Ege University Ege University or Aegean University ( tr, Ege Üniversitesi) is a public research university in Bornova, İzmir. It was founded in 1955 with the faculties of Medicine and Agriculture. It is the first university to start courses in İzmir and the ...

next to Faculty of Science at . The museum was founded in 1973. Between 1973 and 1991 it was an institute of the faculty. After 1991 it became a subunit of the rectorship.

Exhibited items

There are 4000 items in the exhibition. There are 6 halls in area.Museum page
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Paleontology Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...

(1168 items) :2. Rocks and minerals (811 items) :3. Birds (168 items) :4. Entrance (Turkish fauna) (937 items) :5. General zoology (766 items) :6. Osteology and evolution (81 items)

References

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