Museums at the University of Michigan

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The Ruthven Exhibit Museums Building on Central Campus, looking towards the northeast

The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor is home to a number of museums, with a majority of them on Central Campus. One such museum is the Exhibit Museum of Natural History. Aside from a planetarium and exhibits on geology, the building also houses:

Museum of Anthropology - home to the program in anthropological archaeology in the United States
Museum of Paleontology (UMMP)
Museum of Zoology - collection includes over 15 million specimens representing all orders of birds, amphibians and reptiles, mites, and insects, and over 80% of orders of fish and mollusks

The U-M Museum of Art on Central Campus

The Kelsey Museum of Archaeology has a collection of Roman, Greek, Egyptian, and Middle Eastern artifacts. The University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) has approximately 18,000 works of art, including European, American, Middle Eastern, Asian, and African, as well as changing exhibits. Also on Central Campus and housed in the School of Dentistry building is the Gordon H. Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry, which contains artifacts pertaining to the history of the dental profession.

The Detroit Observatory is adjacent to the University Hospital complex. Containing two telescopes, it is the first observatory in Michigan and the second in Midwest, and is the second oldest building remaining on campus. The Nichols Arboretum is also adjacent to the University Hospital complex.

Other museums include the Matthaei Botanical Gardens (located on the eastern outskirts of Ann Arbor), the UM Herbarium, and the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments (located in the Earl V. Moore Building of the School of Music on the university's North Campus).