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Museum · Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, Emirate of Abu Dhabi

Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi

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Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi is a natural history museum in the Saadiyat Cultural District on Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, opened in 2025.

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Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi is a museum of natural history in the Saadiyat Cultural District on Saadiyat Island. Visit Abu Dhabi, the emirate's tourism site, says it opened in 2025 and that its galleries run from the origins of the universe to present-day ecosystems, with a section on fossils from across the UAE and the landscape of the region seven million years ago; it names a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton known as Stan and the Murchison Meteorite among the exhibits. This record is the museum, not the wider Saadiyat Cultural District. The museum's own site could not be read for this record, so its entry rules are not given here; Visit Abu Dhabi directs visitors to that site for tickets and opening times.

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Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi is the capital of the United Arab Emirates; the UAE government portal names the city of Abu Dhabi as one of the emirate's three main regions, with Al Ain in the east and Al Dhafrah in the west, and as home to most ministries and foreign embassies. XTOUR maps places inside the city such as the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, Qasr Al Hosn and the Saadiyat Island museums, and treats Al Ain and Al Wathba Wetland Reserve as outside it.

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