Day at the museum

The Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo is Norway’s most comprehensible natural history collection. For almost 200 years preserved plant specimens, animal specimens, rocks, minerals and fossils have been collected, studied and preserved here.

The Zoological Museum presents animals from all over Norway and the rest of the world.

Bird mountain from north Norway

Woodpecker- Norway

Fox

Squirrel

Lynx- mainly in southern & western Norway

Victor, Vanessa, Patrick & Lisa

Brown bear- can grown to be 2,5m tall & weight up to 350kg

Wolves- live in the mountain & forrest regions of Norway, especially close to the Swedish border. There are only belived to be between 10-20 wolves that roam between Sweden & Norway today.

Reindeer- live in mountain regions of southern Norway

Owl

Arctic regions

Lisa, Patrick, Vanessa & Victor

Lisa, Vanessa & Victor with bear

North-American regions

North-American regions

Central American regions

Oriental regions

Tyrannosaurus rex – Stan

Found in south Dakota, USA in 1987

One of the worlds best preserved tyrannosaurus' (70% of his skeleton was preserved)

Tyrannosaurus rex – Stan

Geological museum- one of the worlds best collections

Dinosaur Iguanodon-

Found in Belgium

Amber

Fossil of a turtle

Skull of a Tyrannosaurus rex- meat-eater

Found in Alberta, Canada

Gallimimus sp. reconstruction

Mammoth- there have been over 20 finds in Norway raning from teeth to skeleton remains & more