Cleveland Museum of Natural History

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History is a wonderful place to learn about nature and history. It is found in University Circle, a special area with many schools and art places, about five miles east of Downtown Cleveland in Ohio, United States.

The museum started in 1920 by Cyrus S. Eaton. It helps people learn about many interesting subjects like humans, animals, plants, rocks, stars, and old times. Today, the museum has teachers who study human health and how humans changed over time.

Visitors can see many amazing things, like fossils of ancient fish from the Devonian period, including a big fish called Dunkleosteus. There are also over 900 skeletons of monkeys and apes, and more than 3,100 human skeletons. You can see a famous skull of a young Tyrannosaurus and the original skeleton of a dinosaur called Haplocanthosaurus, known as “Happy.”

There is also a piece of rock from the Moon, colorful gems, and replicas of famous dinosaurs like Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus. A real mammoth and other ancient elephant-like creatures called mastodons are on display too. The museum also has a copy of Lucy, an ancient human-like creature, and a big skeleton of a dinosaur called Allosaurus.

The Perkins Wildlife Center, which opened in 2016, shows live animals and plants from Ohio. The museum has many beautiful artworks, including a large Stegosaurus sculpture called Steggie, pieces showing ancient mastodons and mammoths, a big limestone bear called Old Grizzly, and many paintings and models of animals and plants.