Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Natural history museum at Tel Aviv University, Israel

The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History is a five-story, 9,620 sq m building designed by Kimmel Eshkolot Architects as a "Treasure Box" or "Noah's Ark", on the eastern side of the Tel Aviv University campus next to the Botanical Gardens. Its roughly 1,700 sq m of exhibition space holds nine themed displays, among them a full-size common minke whale skeleton and a ceiling hung with taxidermied migrating birds.

The museum unites four Tel Aviv University collections: the Zoological Museum, the National Herbarium of algae, fungi and lichens, the national anthropological collections and the biological archaeology collections. The building by Kimmel Eshkolot Architects opened to the public in July 2018, funded by Michael and Judy Steinhardt, government ministries, Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael and Yad Hanadiv. Tamar Dayan chaired the museum from its founding until July 2026, when Yonatan Belmaker succeeded her; Alon Sapan is its director.

The museum displays plants and animals from Israel and the Middle East that help researchers understand the region's living world. Its collections show how different species relate to each other and what makes this area biologically important.

The museum sits on the Tel Aviv University campus and is relatively easy to reach. It is best to arrive in the morning when the exhibitions are less crowded and you can view the objects at your own pace.

The taxidermied crocodile in the Treasures of the Collections exhibition comes from the zoologist Father Ernst Schmitz (1845–1922), whose collection is on loan from the German Association of the Holy Land. It is the last wild Nile crocodile hunted in Ottoman Palestine, in 1912, and is displayed behind protective glass.