Naturhistorisches Museum Wien

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Naturhistorisches Museum Wien is Vienna’s renowned natural history museum, famed for its extensive collections of minerals, fossils, meteorites, and zoological specimens housed in a grand 19th-century building.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf museum
natural history museum
tourist attraction
architecturalStyle Historicist architecture
Neo-Renaissance
collectionSize about 30 million objects
collectionType anthropology
meteorites
mineralogy
natural history
paleontology
zoology
country Austria
designedBy Carl Hasenauer
Gottfried Semper
facing Kunsthistorisches Museum
surface form: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
hasDome yes
hasEducationPrograms yes
hasExhibit dinosaur skeletons
dioramas
fossils
gemstones
meteorites
minerals
prehistoric human remains
taxidermied animals
hasFloorCount 2 main exhibition floors
hasResearchFunction yes
hasWebsite https://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/
heritageDesignation part of Vienna’s historic centre
inception 1889
languageOfWorkOrName German
locatedIn Innere Stadt
Vienna
locatedOn Maria-Theresien-Platz
notableCollection dinosaur fossils
meteorite collection
mineral and gemstone collection
prehistoric artifacts
notableExhibit Venus of Willendorf
officialName Naturhistorisches Museum Wien self-link
openingDate 10 August 1889
ownedBy Austria
surface form: Republic of Austria
partOf Maria-Theresien-Platz
surface form: Maria-Theresien-Platz ensemble
publicTransitAccess Vienna U2 line
surface form: Vienna U-Bahn line U2 (Museumsquartier nearby)

Vienna tramway network
surface form: Vienna tram lines on Ringstraße
shortName Naturhistorisches Museum Wien self-linksurface differs
surface form: NHM Wien
visitorAttractionStatus one of the major museums in Vienna

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Leopold Fitzinger employer Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
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Neue Burg wing locatedNear Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
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Burggarten near Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
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First District contains Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
this entity surface form: Museum of Natural History, Vienna
Museum of Art History facing Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
this entity surface form: Museum of Natural History, Vienna