Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo

The museum's nature ( NHM ) is the oldest and largest natural history museum in Norway, located in Oslo. It includes botanical, mycological, paleontological, geological, and zoological and tissue collections.

The history of the museum goes back to the Botanical Garden of the University of Oslo, which was founded by the border of the Tøyen 1814. The Zoological Museum, Botanical Museum and the Geological Museum was founded some 100 years later, when the campus was too small for such purposes in the center of Oslo. Significant researcher at the museum were the geologist Waldemar Christofer Brøgger and the botanist Nordal Wille ( 1858-1924 ). In the 20th century the Museum and Botanical Gardens were divided into five different areas, which were merged on 1 August 1999. The current name of the museum dates back to 2005.

Among the most important exhibits is among other things the Darwinius fossil " Ida ", a primate from the Eocene.