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Hungarian Natural History Museum - Budapest
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Address: 1083, Budapest Ludovika tér 2-6.
Phone number: (1) 210-1085, (1) 303-6193
E-mail: mtminfo@nhmus.hu
Opening hours: Mon, Wed-Sun 10-18
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2012.02.29. 00:00
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Ticket for adults
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100 HUF
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What is it? It has six legs and exoskeleton. Whoever cannot find the answer to this question should visit the Museum of Natural Sciences in 2010. Those who know the answer right away will also enjoy the exhibition entitled 'The Empire of Insects' opening at the Museum of Natural Sciences on 19 March 2010.
This interactive exhibition invites the visitors to the world of mysterious insects. We show these tiny species under looking glass, but also show larger ones. The exhibition also offers interactive games and texts to read about insects. The little ones can dress up like longicorns, can play with butterfly wing puzzles, and can be absorbed in records about insect. For the older ones we offer mysteries of forensic entomology to detect.
Insects are there everywhere, except for the depth of the oceans. Even though insects have lived on Earth for a long time, due to their body structure and physiology, they are always ready to renew themselves. Most of the creatures on Earth, including human beings, would not exist without insects.
Variability delight is especially true for insects. There are many different kinds of them. Creativity of 'Nature' is definitely observable when studying them. Even though people often consider them as pests, or as disgusting, insects are rather wonderful creatures. So we can say that the exhibition is an exciting journey to an empire in which the tenants are not known by many of us, and therefore offer a lot of surprises.
Would you believe that the European mantis, the Mantis Religiosa, is not a saint at all, but a dangerous predator. Or that hundreds of insects are to be found on one single oak tree?
The United Nations declared 2010 the International Year of Biological Diversity. Among the rest of the member states, Hungary also participates in the related programme series. One of the events is the exhibition The Empire of Insects.
Biodiversity is the term to represent all life on our planet. This means all the plants, animals and fungi, but also bacteria and viruses we cannot see with the naked eye. The measure of biodiversity is the number of species. Professionals of biology have identified c. two-million species, of which over on-million are insects. In reality, we still have not discovered most of the insects.
This interactive exhibition invites the visitors to the world of mysterious insects. We show these tiny species under looking glass, but also show larger ones. The exhibition also offers interactive games and texts to read about insects. The little ones can dress up like longicorns, can play with butterfly wing puzzles, and can be absorbed in records about insect. For the older ones we offer mysteries of forensic entomology to detect.
Insects are there everywhere, except for the depth of the oceans. Even though insects have lived on Earth for a long time, due to their body structure and physiology, they are always ready to renew themselves. Most of the creatures on Earth, including human beings, would not exist without insects.
Variability delight is especially true for insects. There are many different kinds of them. Creativity of 'Nature' is definitely observable when studying them. Even though people often consider them as pests, or as disgusting, insects are rather wonderful creatures. So we can say that the exhibition is an exciting journey to an empire in which the tenants are not known by many of us, and therefore offer a lot of surprises.
Would you believe that the European mantis, the Mantis Religiosa, is not a saint at all, but a dangerous predator. Or that hundreds of insects are to be found on one single oak tree?
The United Nations declared 2010 the International Year of Biological Diversity. Among the rest of the member states, Hungary also participates in the related programme series. One of the events is the exhibition The Empire of Insects.
Biodiversity is the term to represent all life on our planet. This means all the plants, animals and fungi, but also bacteria and viruses we cannot see with the naked eye. The measure of biodiversity is the number of species. Professionals of biology have identified c. two-million species, of which over on-million are insects. In reality, we still have not discovered most of the insects.
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