Palestine Museum of Natural History, Natural history museum at Bethlehem University, Palestine.
The Palestine Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum on the campus of Bethlehem University in Bethlehem, gathering plants, animals, and insects from across the region alongside a botanical garden. It also runs a center for treating and rehabilitating injured wildlife found in the area.
The museum was founded in 2013 as a project of Bethlehem University and opened its doors to visitors in 2017. It was created to document the natural diversity found across Palestine.
The museum displays agricultural tools and native seeds that show how Palestinians have worked the land for generations. Visitors can see which plants and cultivation methods are deeply rooted in this region.
The museum sits on the Bethlehem University campus, which is easy to reach on foot from the center of town. It is generally open most days of the week, so it is worth checking ahead for any closures around local holidays.
The museum has documented freshwater snail and insect species found only in Palestine and nowhere else in the world. Many of these records come from fieldwork carried out in little-visited corners of the region.
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