Florida Museum of Natural History

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address:South West 34th Street And Hull Road Gainesville, FL 32611 phone:352-846-2000 website:Florida Museum of Natural History

The Florida Museum is Florida's state museum of natural history, dedicated to understanding and preserving biological diversity and cultural heritage. The museum's two main facilities are located in Gainesville, Fla. on the University of Florida campus.Powell Hall, the education and exhibition center, is home to the permanent and traveling exhibit programs, adult and children's classes, group tours and special events. Dickinson Hall houses the museum's research activities and vast collections containing more than 20 million natural history specimens. More than 100,000 people visited the museum in 2003.Visitors can enjoy hundreds of butterflies, witness a South Florida Calusa Indian welcoming ceremony, experience a life-sized limestone cave and see a mammoth and mastodon from the last Ice Age.

The Florida Museum of Natural History is Florida's state museum of natural history, dedicated to understanding, preserving and interpreting biological diversity and cultural heritage