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Museum of natural history ann arbor
The University of Michigan Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the United States.
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A unit of the University of Michigan's College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the museum is located on the university's Central Campus and has 22,000 square feet of exhibit space in a building that it shares with three research museums (Anthropology, Zoology, Paleontology). The University Herbarium is administered through the same organization. The natural history collections began in 1837, and the current building, the Alexander Ruthven Museums Building, dates to 1928. The public exhibit museum was founded in 1956, and today has more than 100,000 visitors annually.
The museum is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization. It employs 11 full-time staff and between 40-50 paid student docents. It has an annual budget of more than $900,000.
University of michigan museum of natural history
Exhibits
The museum has four major permanent exhibits:
Two galleries currently display exhibits on "Evolution & Health" and archaeological research work in the U-M Museum of Archaeological Anthropology. The first floor Rotunda Lobby currently displays "The Invisible World of Mites."