Make Your Own Home Nature Museum!

When I was a child, my siblings and I build our own home nature museums using advice from the classic book, How to Make a Home Nature Museum by Vinson Brown, published in 1954. You can buy used copies of this out-of-print book online.

For a more recent take on making a home nature museum, check out Natural History Collector: Hunt, Discover, Learn! by Michael Sanchez, published in 2018. Both new and used copies are available online.

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Here are some web pages with ideas about how to store and display your collections:

The Science Museum Museum has some advice on home nature museums: Make your own museum | Science Museum of Minnesota (smm.org)

Build a Homemade Natural History Museum:
https://childhoodbynature.com/build-a-homemade-natural-history-museum/

Ideas for Displaying Rocks and Fossils:

Here’s a play-based inspiration for parents with young children: https://earlylearningideas.com/geology-lab-dramatic-play

Pinterest always has lots of ideas for adults and older children:

https://www.pinterest.com/beckystone1/rocks/

https://www.pinterest.com/rachelemisiti/fossil-display-ideas/

Ideas for Displaying Shells:

https://www.completely-coastal.com/2013/02/seashell-collection.html