Aquarium and Natural History Museum, Kraków
aquarium and museum in Kraków, Poland
Aquarium and Natural History Museum in Kraków (formerly the Museum of Natural Science Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals PAS) is a public aquarium and museum at St. Sebastian 9th in Kraków, Poland. There is a crafted, perfectly preserved, prehistoric woolly rhinoceros, the only completely preserved specimen of this animal that went extinct more than 12 thousand years ago.
History
The origins of the museum were in 1865 when Kazimierz Wodzicki gathered a collection of birds gave the Scientific Society of Kraków. Originally housed in the building of the Cracow branch of Academy of Sciences, ul. Sławkowska. In 1888, he arranged the first exhibition to the public. In 1929 the museum was enriched by a unique specimen of woolly rhinoceros found in the village of Starunia, near Stanisławow. The Museum moved to current premises in 1993.
In the museum, there were four permanent exhibitions: "Molluscs", "Conversation with a stone", "Amber in science and kolekcjonerstwie.", "Polish Pleistocene fauna." There were also temporary exhibitions.
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