Louisiana Museum of Natural History

Louisiana Museum of Natural History
Established	1936
Location	Baton Rouge, Louisiana United States
Website	lsu.edu/lmnh

The Louisiana Museum of Natural History is the state's museum of natural history located on the campus of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. It houses the LSU Museum of Natural Science (the former Museum of Zoology, hence the collection code LSUMZ), the LSU Herbarium, the Louisiana State Arthropod Museum which contains approximately 1.2 million specimens^[1] of insects and related arthropods, and the Textile and Costume Museum.

One exhibit area is the Textile and Costume Museum, and the other is the Museum of Natural Science. The Natural Science branch also has mineralogy, petrology, and palynology collections, as well as the Louisiana Geological Survey data repositories.^[2]

References

^ "Louisiana State Arthropod Museum". Louisiana Museum of Natural History. 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
^ "Mineralogy and Petrology Collections in the Department of Geology and Geophysics". Louisiana Museum of Natural History. 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-07-25. Retrieved 2008-09-17.

External links

Official website

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Located in: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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Founded: 1860 Students: 31,527 Endowment: 788 million

City of Baton Rouge

History

Areas

Scotlandville

Education

Secondary(*)	East Baton Rouge PSS Baton Rouge Magnet HS Belaire HS Broadmoor HS Capitol HS EBR Lab Academy Glen Oaks HS Istrouma HS Liberty Magnet HS McKinley HS Scotlandville HS Tara HS School for the Deaf School for the Visually Impaired LSU Lab Mentorship Academy of Digital Arts Southern U. Lab Catholic HS Episcopal HS Parkview Baptist HS St. Joseph's Academy Closed Cristo Rey Baton Rouge Franciscan High School Redemptorist HS
Colleges/universities	Louisiana State University (See template) Southern University (See template) Our Lady of the Lake College Louisiana Culinary Institute Baton Rouge Community College
Libraries	State Library of Louisiana Louisiana State Archive and Research Library East Baton Rouge Parish Library

Points of interest(**)

Media

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Transportation

(*) Some schools are in unincorporated areas outside of the city limits, including Woodlawn HS and St. Michael HS
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