The Museum of Natural History

The Władysław Rydzewski Natural History Museum of the University of Wrocław is the oldest and largest museum of its kind in the country. The museum was established in 1814, and its collections contain many unique specimens of extinct and rare animals, such as the great auk, the passenger pigeon, the Carolina parakeet, the huia and the thylacine. One of the most valuable exhibits in the museum's collection is the skeleton of the Megaloceros giganteus giant deer that became extinct 10,000 years ago, presented in the Vertebrate Skeleton System exhibition. The antler span of this species was over 3 metres. In its collections, the Museum also has the best-preserved skull of the aurochs, an ancestor of domestic cattle, in Poland. This animal was completely exterminated in the Middle Ages. The World of Animals exhibition also features the only complete skeleton in Poland of the largest animal that has ever lived on Earth: the blue whale.

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The Władysław Rydzewski Natural History Museum of the University of Wrocław is the oldest and largest museum of its kind in the country. The museum was established in 1814, and its collections contain many unique specimens of extinct and rare animals, such as the great auk, the passenger pigeon, the Carolina parakeet, the huia and the thylacine. One of the most valuable exhibits in the museum's collection is the skeleton of the Megaloceros giganteus giant deer that became extinct 10,000 years ago, presented in the Vertebrate Skeleton System exhibition. The antler span of this species was over 3 metres. In its collections, the Museum also has the best-preserved skull of the aurochs, an ancestor of domestic cattle, in Poland. This animal was completely exterminated in the Middle Ages. The World of Animals exhibition also features the only complete skeleton in Poland of the largest animal that has ever lived on Earth: the blue whale.

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