University of Copenhagen Zoological Museum

University of Copenhagen Zoological Museum

Zoologisk museum
Established	1862
Location	15, 2100 København Ø, Copenhagen, Denmark
Type	Natural history museum
Director	Morten Meldgaard
Website	http://zoologi.snm.ku.dk

The Copenhagen Zoological Museum (Danish: Zoologisk Museum) is a part of the Natural History Museum of Denmark which consist of four natural science museums.^[1] The permanent exhibition 'From pole to pole' show animals from around the world in big displays. There is also a semi-permanent Darwin exhibition and a full collection of all the animals in the Danish territory, including Greenland. The museum has many important remains of recently extinct birds in storage, including the eyes and internal organs of the last two great auks, several specimens of the pied raven, and one of only two known complete skulls of the dodos that were taken to Europe in the 17th century.

Gallery

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  Rain forest
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  Arctic display
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  One of two taxidermied great auks at the Zoological Museum of Copenhagen

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Zoological Museum (Copenhagen).

• "Natural History Museum of Denmark". University of Copenhagen. Retrieved 2014-08-30. 
• Torben Wolff. "The history of the Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen". University of Copenhagen. Retrieved 2014-08-30. 
• "Series of pictures from the museum" (in Danish). Retrieved 2014-08-30. 

Coordinates: 55°42′09″N 12°33′33″E / 55.70245°N 12.55906°E / 55.70245; 12.55906