The Natural History Museum of Geneva (in French: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la Ville de Genève) is a natural history museum in Geneva, Switzerland.
Louis Jurine’s collections of Hymenoptera, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera and Hemiptera are held by the museum.
The museum also contains a collection of fascinating intricate glass models of invertebrates by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka and a two headed tortoise named Janus
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