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| Name | Florida Museum of Natural History |
| Brief Description | The state's official natural history museum |
| Type | Attraction |
| Category | Gainesville Florida Museum |
| Description | Chartered by the Florida Legislature in 1917, the Florida Museum of Natural History serves as the state’s official natural history museum. It is the largest collections-based natural history museum in the Southeast, with one of the nation’s top 10 natural history collections. The museum's education and exhibit center houses four permanent exhibits:
· In the Hall of Florida Fossils: Evolution of Life and Land guests will learn about Florida’s geologic and environmental changes over the past 65 million years, and the fossils that give insight to the plants and animals that have made their home here.
· South Florida People & Environments explains the story of native people in South Florida and the environments that have supported them for thousands of years. Visitors can walk along a boardwalk through a mangrove forest, travel underwater to view larger-than-life marine creatures, visit the house of a Calusa leader and much more.
· Northwest Florida: Waterways and Wildlife displays a full-sized replica of a North Florida limestone cave and educates visitors about the amazing diversity of Florida’s panhandle, the most biologically rich region of the state.
· The McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity and the Butterfly Rainforest opens Aug. 14, 2004, and will bring visitors face-to-face with hundreds of living butterflies. The 64,000-square-foot Butterfly Rainforest is complete with tropical and subtropical plants and trees, waterfalls and a walking trail. Guests also can view thousands of Lepidoptera species on the “Wall of Wings” and learn about butterfly and moth biology. The McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity will house a collection of more than 4 million butterflies and moths, making it the second-largest Lepidoptera collection in the world.
· The museum also produces and hosts traveling exhibits, and presents adult and children’s classes, group tours and special events.
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| Address | Powell Hall |
| | SW 34th Street and Hull Road |
| CSZ | Gainesville, FL 32611 |
| Website | www.flmnh.ufl.edu |
| Additional Information | Additional Information |
| Last Updated | 7/12/2004 |
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