Natural History Museum of Shiraz

🕰️When was it built?

The museum was founded in early 1975 through the efforts of Sadreddin Sharifi, a professor at Shiraz University, and later moved to its present building on Modarres Boulevard. The building has a floor area of about 5,000 square metres, and the collection has grown over time with donated specimens.

🏛️What was it built for?

The museum works for teaching, research and the display of natural specimens. Its zoology, botany, geology and entomology sections sit alongside sections such as anatomy, astronomy and technology, and a taxidermy workshop is part of the complex.

👀What you will see

• The zoology section holds invertebrates and vertebrates, including amphibians, reptiles and birds.
• The collection of ornamental and medicinal plants includes more than sixty species of medicinal plant.
• In the geology section, a fish fossil about seventy million years old sits beside many kinds of rocks and minerals.
• A large sea urchin fossil and single and grouped bivalves are among the donated specimens in the geology section.
• The minerals case displays specimens such as aquamarine, tourmaline, malachite and a quartz geode, each with its card.

🎒Good to know before you go

• Read the card beside each fossil; sea urchins and bivalves belong to different groups of animals.