Established | 2010[1] |
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Location | 202 Calhoun Street[1] |
Coordinates | 32°47′05.4″N 79°56′22.7″W / 32.784833°N 79.939639°W |
Type | Natural history museum |
Key holdings | Cretaceous-Cenozoic marine vertebrate assemblages including key fossils of early baleen whales, dolphins, and sea cows. |
Collections | Natural history |
Collection size | 30,000 |
Visitors | 13,760 in 2019 |
Curator | Scott Persons |
Owner | The College of Charleston |
Website | https://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