Zoological Museum Amsterdam
The Zoological Museum Amsterdam (ZMA) was a Natural History Museum in Amsterdam. It was part of the Faculty of Science, Mathematics and Computer Science (Science) of the University of Amsterdam.
In 2011, the collection of the Zoological Museum was merged into the collections of Naturalis and the National Herbarium of the Netherlands in NCB Naturalis (Dutch Centre for Biodiversity). To highlight the move, the Naturalis museum has an exhibition on "Naturalia, circus animals to scientific object", in which objects from the collection of the ZMA are displayed, between 14 October 2011 and 19 August 2012.
It was one of the two major natural history museums in the Netherlands. The total collection included approximately 13 million registered properties and was used mainly for scientific purposes. The museum was next to the museum functions - management and conservation of collections and exhibition - a major scientific and (university) education function. At the Aquarium Building Artis Department organized exhibitions exhibitions around the theme of human nature, nature in man ".
The museum was divided into three departments and two departments:
- Departments
- Vertebrates (birds and mammals): Mauritskade 61
- Vertebrates (herpetology and fish) and Invertebrates: Mauritskade 57
- Entomology: Plantage Middenlaan 64
- Departments
- Exhibitions
- Biodiversity Informatics