The front entrance to the Natural History museum

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Natural History Museum

Dubrovnik


Spread over four sparsely populated floors, this low-key museum has displays on invasive fish species, a very cool arrangement of seashells suspended in plastic orbs and a surreal Freddie-Mercury-as-fish–themed room.


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