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Virginia Museum of Natural History
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Established1984
Location21 Starling Avenue, Martinsville, Virginia, 24112
DirectorJoe B. Keiper, Ph.D.
Websitewww.vmnh.net
Fossil displays at the Virginia Museum of Natural History. In the foreground is a large Thrombolite-stromatolite (1.9 m diameter). In the background, the skeleton of a theropod dinosaur.
Closeup of the enormous fossil Thrombolite-stromatolite above, found in a quarry in Bedford, Virginia in 2008.

The Virginia Museum of Natural History is the state's natural history museum located in Martinsville, Virginia founded in 1984.[1] The museum has several different award-winning publications,[2] is affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution, and has more than 22 million items.[3] This includes the first intact stromatolite head ever found in Virginia, which is one of the largest complete 'heads' in the world, at over 5 feet in diameter and weighing over 2 tons.[4]

  1. ^ "Information". Virginia Museum of Natural History. 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
  2. ^ "Publications". Virginia Museum of Natural History. 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
  3. ^ "Collections". Virginia Museum of Natural History. 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
  4. ^ "VMNH scientists confirm discovery of 500 million-year-old fossil". Virginia Museum of Natural History. 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-17.

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