The National museum at Copenhagen is the most important and is specially rich in Scandinavian and Danish an tiquities. There is also a very fine Geological museum in this city with a wonderful collection of precious stones. The Natural His tory Museum, Aarhus, founded in 1920, is devoted to geology, mineralogy and zoology. Several old castles throughout the coun try house wonderful collections of Danish antiques while there are numerous open air folk museums.
There are museums in nearly all the large towns in Italy and attached to the universities. The Museo Civico at Genoa, the Geological museum at Bologna and the zoological collection at the aquarium at Naples are the most important.
The Geological Survey museum at Athens, the mineralogical, the petrological and the zoological museums of the university at Athens have representative collections.
The museums of Switzerland deal almost en tirely with the natural sciences. The most important are (I) The Natural History museum, Berne, (2) The Natural History museum, Geneva, (3) The Zoology museum, Lausanne, and (4) The Natural History museum, Neuchatel.
In Berlin there are : (I) the Museum fur Natur kunde; (2) the Ethnological museum; (3) the Anthropological museum; (4) the Mineralogical museum, and (5) the Agricul tural museum. The first is rich in classical collections while the contents of the others are denoted by their names. In Hamburg there are a Natural History museum, an Ethnological museum, the Museum Godeffroy and the Museum Umlauff. The munici pal museum of Bremen specializes in natural history and eth nology. Dresden contains a number of museums which embrace all the sciences and are extremely important to the specialist. In Leipzig there is an ethnological museum rich in Southern and Central European antiquities; while Munich has a Natural His tory museum, an Anatomical museum and an Ethnographical museum. The Natural History museum in Stuttgart is noted for its palaeontological collections. The museums at Hildesheim and Liibeck are worthy of special note as they are model provincial museums. The most recent museum in Germany is the Deutsche Museum in Munich opened in 1925; it contains a very valuable collection illustrating the history of technology and the exact sciences, physics, chemistry and astronomy and is comparable in some ways to the science museum in London, and the Gallery of Arts and Crafts in Paris.
The Imperial Natural History museum in Vienna is one of the finest institutions of its kind in Europe. The mineral ogical collection is unrivalled. The botanical and conchological collections are also world renowned. The Technological museum is mainly devoted to mechanical and technological science.
The ethnographical and anthropological collec tions at Budapest are extremely important. In the Musee Social the following departments are worthy of attention, human anat omy, industrial hygiene, prevention of accidents, contagious diseases and other health subjects.
The Natural History museum of the King of Bul garia in Sofia is devoted to the geology, zoology and botany of Bulgaria. The National museum of Bulgaria deals with archae ology, architecture and the fine arts.
The Geological institute of Rumania contains a very fine collection of Rumanian minerals, rocks and fossils. The university laboratory of Rumania is rich in geological phenomena and general stratigraphy. The Natural History museum con tains geology, zoology, comparative anatomy, oceanography, an thropology and ethnology. The collections of rare Rumanian fossils including Dinotherium and of Rumanian fauna are note worthy. The museum of the Hermannstadt Natural History So ciety contains collections exclusively Transylvanian.
The National Museum of Prague is de voted almost entirely to natural history but there are also col lections illustrating ethnology, archaeology and numismatics. The Technology museum of Czechoslovakia, also in Prague, deals with engineering, textiles, mining, chemistry, metallurgy and aeronautics.
The Croat National museum contains depart ments of zoology, geology, palaeontology, archaeology, ethnology and the fine arts.
The Industrial museum in Cracow is devoted spe cially to the arts and crafts. The Museum Dzieduszycki at Lem berg deals mainly with the fauna and flora of Poland and has also general collections of archaeology and ethnology. The museum at Posen is notable for its forestry exhibition. The Polish Museum • of Natural History at Warsaw comprises the collections of the University of Warsaw, the Branick collection, and the malaco logical collections of Prince Ladislas Lubomirski, brought to gether in 1919.