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CBD Museum of Nature and Culture

A work of art can often illustrate volumes more than mere words about the intricate cultural and social fabric of a country. The Convention on Biological Diversity’s Museum of Nature and Culture serves as a marvelous opportunity for Parties to share their cultural inheritance with the world, and to publicly showcase their country’s unique biological diversity in an artistic and symbolic way.

Since the Executive Secretary first sent a request for donations to the Museum of Nature and Culture in January 2006 to all Parties of the Convention, the response has been overwhelmingly positive. Several countries have graciously donated beautiful works of art that showcase their country’s rich and unique cultural heritage and its relationship to biological diversity.

By donating artwork to the Museum that is reflective of the biological diversity unique to each country, the world benefits from the beauty of the individual artwork as well as the immediate need to protect and conserve the world’s biological diversity for generations to come.

These pieces are now on permanent display as part of the Convention’s Museum of Nature and Culture exhibit, and greet the Secretariat's visitors as they enter.

   

Country

Algeria
4 items
Austria
1 item
Belarus
2 items
Bhutan
2 items
Bosnia and Herzegovina
1 item
Brazil
3 items
Cambodia
2 items
Cameroon
2 items
Canada
6 items
Chad
1 item
Chile
1 item
China
2 items
Côte d'Ivoire
1 item
Croatia
2 items
Czech Republic
1 item
Ecuador
2 items
Ethiopia
1 item
France
2 items
Gabon
1 item
Georgia
1 item
Germany
1 item
Grenada
2 items
Guinea
1 item
Guinea-Bissau
2 items
Hungary
2 items
India
1 item
Iraq
5 items
Ireland
1 item
Japan
1 item
Luxembourg
1 item
Malaysia
1 item
Mauritania
1 item
Mauritius
1 item
New Zealand
2 items
Norway
1 item
Pakistan
3 items
Peru
2 items
Poland
1 item
Portugal
1 item
Republic of Moldova
5 items
Rwanda
1 item
Saint Lucia
1 item
Serbia
2 items
Seychelles
2 items
Slovakia
1 item
Sri Lanka
1 item
Syrian Arab Republic
1 item
Tajikistan
1 item
Thailand
1 item
Tunisia
1 item
Turkmenistan
2 items
Ukraine
2 items
Uruguay
1 item
Yemen
1 item
Others
9 items