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Goulandris Natural History Museum

location_on Kifisia, Attica , Greece
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About Goulandris Natural History Museum

The Goulandris Museum of Natural History is a museum in Kifisia, a northeastern suburb of Athens, Greece. It was founded with the aid of Angelos Goulandris and Niki Goulandris in 1965 with a view to promote interest within the herbal sciences, to elevate the notice of the public, in fashionable, and in particular to name its attention to the need to guard Greece's herbal flora and fauna habitats and species in the danger of extinction.

The museum consists of large collections of insects, mammals, birds, reptiles, shells, rocks, minerals and fossils, from the rich herbal natural world of the Greek territory. The botanical collections quantity over 200.000 species of plants, among which there are 145 newly discovered ones, that have been recorded way to the museum's studies. The kernel of the botanical series become formed while it received the gathering of Constantine Goulimis, the author of Wild Flowers of Greece that changed into illustrated with the aid of Niki Goulandris.

In the museum's laboratories, scientific studies is being done inside the regions of ecology, botany, zoology, geology, palaeontology and biotechnology. In the exhibition rooms are offered in detail the variety and interdependence of the biocommunities and the floral, animal and geological wealth of Greece. Triceratops dinosaur skeleton at Goulandris Museum of Natural History in Kifissia, Athens, Greece. The Goulandris Museum of Natural History also features as a complementary educational institution for all degrees of schooling.

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