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- “Travel back in time as you explore millions of prehistoric skeletons, artifacts and fossils at the Natural History Museum.”
- ―The Official Zootopia Handbook
The Natural History Museum is a building in Savanna Central filled with exhibits and fossils from the times before Zootopia was created. Among these exhibits are several dioramas of predators hunting prey animals, in which the latter seem to have started hunter-gatherer groups.
Role in the Film[]
Judy about to give the case to Bellwether
Just before their runaway subway car fully crashes and burns, Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde jump clear at the underground subway entrance to the Natural History Museum. Carrying a case containing Doug's dart gun and its night howler toxin ammo they dash up the stairs to the main floor intending to go out the front doors since the Zootopia Police Department is right across the plaza. ,
Before they clear the museum, Judy and Nick encounter Dawn Bellwether and her ram henchmen and initially think they have reached safety. However, Judy realizes that Dawn is part of the savage predator conspiracy and they flee deeper into the museum to escape capture.
Bellwether reveals her true personality
However, Judy accidentally cuts her leg on a mammoth exhibit's tusk, causing them to halt. After Nick uses his Junior Ranger Scouts neckerchief, which was holding blueberries at the time, to bandage up Judy's wound, the two place a stuffed rabbit mannequin to temporarily distract their pursuers and make a run for the exit. After being rammed into a circular bird's eye view exhibit, the two are talked down upon by Bellwether who shares her plans of turning all predators savage, thus keeping her in power.
"It's called a hustle, sweetheart. Boom."
Having now reclaimed her evidence, Bellwether fires a pellet of night howler serum, later revealed to actually be a blueberry, at Nick. Playing along, Nick pretends to turn savage and "attacks" Judy. After he pretends to kill Judy, Bellwether furiously threatens to frame Judy and Nick for her crimes, like she framed Mayor Lionheart, but Judy reveals she has been recording everything that Bellwether had said with her Carrot pen, giving them the evidence they need for Chief Bogo and the ZPD to send her to prison and reunite the predator and prey animals.
Role in Zootopia: Crime Files[]
The Big Catch[]
The Natural History Museum in Zootopia: Crime Files
In the sixth case of the game, the exhibits in the Natural History Museum were altered by a vandal, being made to look like all historical events took place in swamplands as a foreshadowing of their project.
Employees[]
| Name | Position | Picture |
| Dr. Zander Orshack | Curator | 
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Trivia[]
- There are many similarities with the real life Natural History Museum in New York City.
- When Judy pretends to be killed by Nick, she acts out the same sequence from her play from the opening scene of the film.
- The fake deer that Nick shreds in the climax is a model of the character Bambi, from the Disney film of the same name.
- The museum is closed to the public due to renovations at the time of the film.
- When Judy and Nick talk with Bellwether in the museum, there's a diorama behind them showing a group of many spear-carrying rabbits walking on two legs fighting a big-cat predator still on four legs in a tree. The diorama foreshadows Dawn Bellwether's plan to have the intelligent and more populous prey of Zootopia group together to exert control over the savage predators.
Gallery[]
Natural History Museum/Gallery.
See also[]