Science Museums, Science museum complex at Aarhus University, Denmark.
Science Museums is a collection of scientific facilities at Aarhus University that operate under one organization. It brings together a natural history museum, botanical gardens with greenhouses, an astronomical observatory with telescopes, and a large herbarium collection.
The observatory was founded in 1911 and forms the oldest part of these facilities. All components were unified under one organization starting in 2008 to strengthen research and education at the university.
The Steno Museum shows how science and medicine developed over time through its collections and displays. You experience how people discovered and understood the natural world by looking at real objects and specimens.
You can visit multiple locations including a planetarium, greenhouses with a cafe, an observatory with telescopes, and online access to herbarium records. These places work under one organization but may have different visiting times, so plan accordingly.
The herbarium holds approximately 750,000 preserved plant samples from around the world, with a significant portion available through an online database. Researchers worldwide use this collection to study plant species beyond what typical museum visitors see.
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