Cleveland Museum of Natural History

Cleveland Museum of Natural History. . , Scientists and medical research companies come from all over the world to study the Hamann-Todd Osteological Collection, which contains 3,100 modern human skeletons and more than 900 non-human primate skeletons. , The Cleveland Museum of Natural History protects more than 7,000 acres of rare habitat in northern Ohio. , The museum is home to an enormous fossil fish called Dunkleteu terrelli, which lived about 360 million years ago when the Cleveland area was a shallow sea. The four-ton, long-extinct fish could snatch a prehistoric shark in its jaws. , To explore and learn more use our digital tour on your mobile device. Circlewalk.org , Learning from the past and making a better future , Past, present, and future come together at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History (CMNH). Visitors uncover ancient artifacts in its vast collections while discovering exciting new exhibitions, captivating live animals, and thought-provoking programming. Behind the scenes, researchers in 11 disciplines are making new discoveries that help inform our future. , Cleveland's civic leaders founded the museum in 1920 as a place to promote science and education. It occupied several locations downtown until joining the city's other premier cultural and educational institutions in University Circle in 1958. Here at Wade Oval, the museum educates then of thousands of school children each year through in-galley classes, neighborhood outreach programming, and award-winning distance learning programs connecting students across the globe. , Above: Museum galleries bring visitors face-to-face with dinosaur skeletons in impressive displays. , Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Background image (left) "Luvy," our 3.2 million-year-old human ancestor skeleton, was discovered by a museum curator and team of researchers. This iconic fossil of the Australopithecus afarenis species sheds light on the past and helps us better understand our origins. , Cleveland Museum of Natural History , A menagerie of animal specimens being transported by car when the museum moved from its home at 2717 Euclid Avenue to its Wade Oval location, in 1958. , Cleveland Museum of Natural History., Balto, the internationally famous dog who helped save the diphtheria-stricken town of Nome, Alaska in 1925. Balto retired to the Brookside Cleveland Zoo in 1927. His mount resides at the museum today for visitors to meet. , Cleveland Museum of Natural History., Paleoanthropologist Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie, curator of physical anthropology, working in the field in Ethiopia. , Cleveland Museum of Natural History., "The amazing treasures of our museum inspire and connect people of all ages to Science and Nature. We strive to foster the joy that comes with exploration and discovery." , Dr. Evalyn Gates, Executive Director and CEO of Cleveland Museum of Natural History, 2015 , The museum's Mueller Observatory offers views of the night sky, in the Shalran Planetarium, museum astronomers take visitors on virtual trips through the Universe and beyond. Cleveland Museum of Natural History.