Naturalis

Naturalis is the national natural history museum of the Netherlands, based in Leiden. It originated from the merger of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie (abbreviated RMNH) and the Rijksmuseum van Geologie en Mineralogie (abbreviated RGM) in 1984. In 1986 it was decided that the museum had to become a public museum and a new building was built. The new building cost about 60 million Euro, making it the second most expensive museum building in the Netherlands.

Since it’s my first time to visit in this Naturalis museum, I feel so excited to explore the place. It’s a huge building where you can see a lot of things that they have. They have many collections of different kinds of rocks, which they preserved for many years already. Some of those rocks look wonderful and it’s very rare to see. Aside from that, you can enjoy watching the skeletal of some animals that they displayed. They also have huge collections of fossils, insects, plant, preserve animals and many more.