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Natural History Collection Day

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Switzerland's natural history museums and botanical gardens house over 60 million natural history objects, and each one has a story to tell. These treasures are usually well protected in collection storage rooms, but for once they will be put in the spotlight.

On National Natural History Collections Day, Sunday 27 October, 19 institutions across Switzerland will open their doors for an exciting look behind the scenes. Let yourself be enchanted by incredible stories about bizarre creatures, eccentric collectors and adventurous discoveries!

List of proposed activites :

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Herbaria Basel and Botanical Garden

Merian Gärten

Botanischer Garten der Universität Bern

Naturhistorisches Museum Bern

Naturmuseum Thurgau

Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève

Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Genève

Naturéum - Muséum cantonal des sciences naturelles VD

Museum.BL

Museo cantonale di storia naturale

Natur-Museum Luzern

JURASSICA Museum

Musée de la nature du Valais

Naturmuseum Solothurn

Naturmuseum St. Gallen

Naturmuseum Winterthur

focusTerra - ETH Zürich

Sukkulenten-Sammlung Zürich