University of Michigan Museum of Natural History

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University of Michigan
Museum of Natural History
Exhibit Museum of Natural History, Ann Arbor - IMG 9055.JPG
The Hall of Evolution
Location1105 N University Ave,
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Website lsa.umich.edu/ummnh
Part of University of Michigan Central Campus Historic District (ID78001514 [1] )
Designated CPJune 15, 1978

The University of Michigan Museum of Natural History (UMMNH) is a natural history museum of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.

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A unit of the university's College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the current building is located in the Biological Sciences Building on the university's Central Campus. The museum has about 45,000 square feet of exhibit space. [2] The natural history collections began in 1837, and for many years the museum was based in the Alexander Ruthven Museums Building, dating to 1928, that it shared with three research museums (Anthropology, Zoology, Paleontology). [2] The museum also used to be administered through the same organization as the University Herbarium. The public exhibit museum was founded in 1956, [3] and today has more than 100,000 visitors annually. [2]

The museum is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization. [2] It employs 23 full-time staff and between 50-70 paid student docents. [2]

Exhibits

The museum has four major permanent exhibits:

Two galleries display exhibits on "Evolution & Health" and archaeological research work in the U-M Museum of Archaeological Anthropology. The first floor Rotunda Lobby currently displays "The Invisible World of Mites."

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