Museum of Natural History

The Natural History Museum is a popular natural history museum located in downtown Victoria, Seychelles. The museum is one of the main city attractions and is a success with tourists.

The Museum of Natural History is located in an ancient mansion of the nineteenth century and has a magnificent collection of exhibits, on which you can get acquainted with the history of the development of the Seychelles, their flora and fauna. The museum presents many skeletons and stuffed animals, you can also see the shells of huge turtles, a variety of shells and unique fruits of local palms - the largest coconuts in the world.

In other rooms, you can admire the magnificent dioramas depicting the seabed, as well as see a collection of various artifacts raised from drowned ships. In one of the exhibition halls there is the skeleton of a real merchant ship that crashed off the coast of the island in 1570.