Natural History Museum of Geneva

The Natural History Museum of Geneva is a natural history museum in Geneva, Switzerland. It is the largest natural history museum in Switzerland and one of the ten largest in Europe. The museum is home to more than 15 million specimens of animals, rocks, and minerals from around the world, and is a centre of scientific research, conservation of natural and historical heritage, exhibitions, and the dissemination of knowledge. Its collections, exhibited over four floors, represent nearly half of Switzerland's natural history collections. Originating at the end of the 18th century, the institution underwent several relocations before moving to its present building in Malagnou Park. The museum's collections include important scientific material associated with Geneva naturalists, and are continually expanded by field missions and research work. The museum also maintains a scientific library, has published the Revue suisse de Zoologie since 1893, and is known for exhibiting the two-headed tortoise Janus. Like other publicly funded municipal museums in Geneva, the Natural History Museum of Geneva offers free access to its permanent collections.