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Nasjonalmuseet (National Museum), Oslo, Norway, year unknown.

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Museu do Louvre (Louvre Museum), Paris, France, year unknown..

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Museu de Arte Moderna (Modern Art Museum), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 1967.

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Field Columbian Museum Moon Model, Chicago, Illinois, USA , 1898.

Original caption:  Field Columbian Museum West Court Alcove 103. 1898. Moon Model Prepared by Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt, Germany, in 1898. Made of 116 sections of plaster on a framework of wood and metal. Wood floor, security Guard in uniform in background, stairs leading up to the left. Sign above door,"Geology," not completely visible.

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Västergötlands museum. Museum i Skara badhus (Västergötland Museum. Museum in Skara bathhouse), Sweden, ca. 1915.

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Omsk. Museum. Zoological Division, Omsk, Russia,1928.

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 “Museum room, including crocodile on the ceiling”, Ferrante Imperato, 1599.

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Museo Histórico y Colonial. Sala de Rosas (Historical and Colonial Museum. Roses room), Luján, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ca. 1930. 

Photographer:  Kohlmann, Federico

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Backstage of Museum, Australian Museum, New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 1950.

Photographer: R. Donaldson.

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Royal Museum, the court (i.e. Bargello Museum, the courtyard), Florence, Italy, between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900.

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Museo de Historia Natural de Concepción: Sección de Antropología; Sala Dr. Vergara Flores (Concepción Natural History Museum: Anthropology Section; Dr. Vergara Flores Room),  Concepción, Chile, 1930.

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“Skeleton of the Young Mammouth in the Museum at Philadelphia.” Illustration in Édouard de Montulé, A Voyage to North America, and the West Indies, in 1817 (London: Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., 1821). Engraving.

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Parque forestal y Museo de Bellas Artes (Forest Park and Museum of Fine Arts), Santiago, Chile, ca. 1950.

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Un salon du musée Carnavalet (A room at the Carnavalet museum), Paris, France, 1920.

Painter: Cain, Berthe

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Tobolʹskīĭ muzeĭ (Museum of Tobolsk), Tobolsk, Siberia, Russia, 1912.

Photographer:  Prokudin-Gorskiĭ, Sergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich, 1863-1944

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Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1957.

Photographer: Michel Lambeth

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Museo de Historia Natural de Concepción: Fachada del Museo (Natural History Museum of Concepción: Facade of the Museum), Concepción, Chile, ca. 1930. 

Original caption: Museo de Historia Natural de Concepción: Su fundador fue el naturalista británico, Edwin Reed Brookman, llega a Chile en 1869, contratado por el Museo y Junto a Rodulfo Phillippi, se ocupan de clasificar la flora y fauna nacional; siendo su primer Director (1902).