Mace Brown Museum of Natural History

Mace Brown Museum of Natural History
Mace Brown Museum of Natural History
Mace Brown Museum of Natural History is located in South Carolina
Mace Brown Museum of Natural History
Location within South Carolina
Established2010[1]
Location202 Calhoun Street[1]
Coordinates32°47′05.4″N 79°56′22.7″W / 32.784833°N 79.939639°W / 32.784833; -79.939639
TypeNatural history museum
Key holdingsCretaceous-Cenozoic marine vertebrate assemblages including key fossils of early baleen whales, dolphins, and sea cows.
CollectionsNatural history
Collection size30,000
Visitors13,760 in 2019
CuratorScott Persons
OwnerThe College of Charleston
Websitehttps://charleston.edu/mace-brown-museum/index.php

The Mace Brown Museum of Natural History is a public natural history museum situated on the campus of The College of Charleston, a public liberal arts college in Charleston, South Carolina. With a collection of over 30,000 vertebrate and invertebrate fossils, the museum focuses on the paleontology of the South Carolina Lowcountry. Admission to the museum is free, and donations are welcome. The museum has the holotype specimens of Coronodon, Cotylocara, and Inermorostrum, as well as the reference specimen of Ankylorhiza tiedemani

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