Florida Museum of Natural History

The Florida Museum of Natural History is Florida's legitimate state-supported and sanctioned characteristic history historical center. Its fundamental offices are situated at 3215 Hull Road on the grounds of the University of Florida in Gainesville. The primary open show office, Powell Hall and the appended McGuire Center, is situated in the Cultural Plaza, which it imparts to the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art and the Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.

The principle examine office and previous open displays building, Dickinson Hall, is situated on the east side of grounds at the side of Museum Road and Newell Drive. The American Institute of Architects' Florida section set Dickinson Hall on its rundown of Florida Architecture: 100 Years. 100 Places as the Florida Museum of Natural History/Formerly Florida Museum of Natural Sciences.

The historical center's accumulations were first utilized for educating at Florida Agriculture College in Lake City in the 1800s, and were migrated to the grounds of the University of Florida in 1906. The exhibition hall was sanctioned as the state's authentic Natural History Museum by the Florida Legislature in 1917. Once in the past known as the Florida State Museum, the name was changed in 1988 to all the more precisely mirror the gallery's main goal and help stay away from perplexity with Florida State University, which is situated in Tallahassee.