Description: The Tulane Museum of Natural History is a private, non-profit research museum which houses extensive collections of amphibians, invertebrates, fish, birds, mammals, reptiles and fossils. The fish section features the world’s largest collection of post larval fishes—more than 7 million specimens in more than 200,000 lots. Reviewers have described the collections as, “a treasure of great national and international importance.” The original museum was an exhibit oriented facility established in 1885 and funded by a grant from Paul Tulane. Currently the museum is administered through the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Tulane University.  The Museum is not officially open to the public, but individual appointments and arrangements for school tours and scholarly researchers can be made.
The Natural History Museum is located at the F. Edward Hebert “Riverside” Research Center in the English Turn of the Mississippi River, near Belle Chasse, Louisiana. For more information and to arrange a tour, please call (504) 394-1711 or visit:
www.museum.tulane.edu. |
