Naturalis Biodiversity Center
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Naturalis Biodiversity Center (Dutch: Nederlands Centrum voor Biodiversiteit Naturalis, Naturalis for short) is a national museum of natural history and a research center on biodiversity in Leiden, Netherlands. It was named the European Museum of the Year 2021.
Although its current name and organization are relatively recent, the history of Naturalis can be traced back to the early 1800s. Its collection includes approximately 42 million specimens, making it one of the largest natural history collections in the world.
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