The Museum of Science and Natural History of Venezuela was opened on the twenty-fourth of July 1940 in the city of Caracas, and includes more than 150,000 different pieces and specimens, and a variety of animals, plants and various elements of nature. In addition to pieces from Venezuelan ethnography, materials on herbology, botany, hydrobiology, ornithology, as well as the paleontology of ancient organisms, and many other treasures.