Ali Demirsoy Natural History Museum

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Ali Demirsoy Natural History Museum is a museum in Kemaliye, TurkeyThe museum is in the campus of Hacı Ali Akın Multi-Program Highschool in Kemaliye ilçe, of Erzincan Province. Its founder is Professor Ali Demirsoy of Hacettepe University. It is supported by Tubitak .Exhibited itemsExhibited items are the following: Various minerals and rocks Gastropoda, bivalvia and echinodermata from Kemaliye area Single cell plants and animals (shown under microscope) Lichens, the earliest living forms on soil Algae from Kemaliye area Some invertebrates in formaldehyde and alcohol Herbarium and insects on panels Fishes in formaldehyde and alcohol Amphibians in Formaldehyde and alcohol Venomous snakes and other reptiles in formaldehyde and alcohol Birds in formaldehyde and alcohol Examples of stuffed mamalia such as bear, volf, wildcat, marten, mountain goat, badger, squirrel, rodents etc.native to area. Herbarium of more than half of all plants native to Kemaliye area The number of plant fossils is about 800 and insect fossils is about 2000. One of the recent additions to the museum is the elephant skeleton from Ankara Zoo.