University of Copenhagen Zoological Museum

The Museum building

The Copenhagen Zoological Museum (Danish: Zoologisk Museum) is a part of the Natural History Museum of Denmark which consist of four natural science museums. The permanent exhibition 'From pole to pole' show animals from around the world in big displays. There is also a semi-permanent Darwin exhibition and a full collection of all the animals in the Danish territory, including Greenland. The museum has many important remains of recently extinct birds in storage, including the eyes and internal organs of the last two Great Auks, several specimens of the Pied Raven, and one of only two known complete skulls of the dodos that were take to Europe in the 17th century.

Gallery

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  Rain Forest

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  Arctic display

External links

• Homepage in English
• The history of the Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen. By Torben Wolff
• Series of pictures from the museum