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Virginia Museum of Natural History

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Virginia Museum of Natural History
Virginia Museum of Natural History. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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The Virginia Museum of Natural History is the state's natural history museum located in Martinsville, Virginia founded in 1984. The museum has several different award-winning publications, is affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution, and has more than 22 million items. This includes the first intact stromatolite head ever found in Virginia, which is one of the largest complete 'heads' in the world, at over 5 feet in diameter and weighing over 2 tons.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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