GeorgiaThe Georgia Museum of Natural History, based at the University of Georgia in Athens, is the state's official natural-history museum and a repository for the tangible evidence of Georgia's natural and cultural heritage. Its holdings trace back to specimen-collecting by UGA faculty and students since the university's 1785 founding, with early collections gathered by professor Josiah Meigs in the early 1800s; the university formally recognized the assembled collections as a museum in 1978, and the General Assembly named it the state natural-history museum in 1999. Curated within the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, its collections exceed seven million specimens spanning archaeology, entomology, botany, geology, herpetology, ichthyology, mammalogy, mycology, ornithology, and zooarchaeology. The fish collection alone holds more than 325,000 specimens, and museum-associated researchers produce roughly 100 scientific publications a year.
University of Georgia Museum of Natural History
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University of Georgia Museum of Natural History is a museum in Athens, Athens-Clarke County. It is one of 8 museums documented in Athens-Clarke County, among 141 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 33.9477, -83.3735 near Athens. The nearest cataloged historic site is UGA vs Auburn (historical marker), about 0.2 miles away. Others within a short drive include UGA vs South Carolina, UGA vs Mississippi State, and UGA vs LSU.
This record is drawn from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
The Georgia Museum of Natural History, based at the University of Georgia in Athens, is the state's official natural-history museum and a repository for the tangible evidence of Georgia's natural and cultural heritage. Its holdings trace back to specimen-collecting by UGA faculty and students since the university's 1785 founding, with early collections gathered by professor Josiah Meigs in the early 1800s; the university formally recognized the assembled collections as a museum in 1978, and the General Assembly named it the state natural-history museum in 1999. Curated within the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, its collections exceed seven million specimens spanning archaeology, entomology, botany, geology, herpetology, ichthyology, mammalogy, mycology, ornithology, and zooarchaeology. The fish collection alone holds more than 325,000 specimens, and museum-associated researchers produce roughly 100 scientific publications a year.
Sources: naturalhistory.uga.edugeorgiaencyclopedia.orgresearch.uga.edu
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