The Natural History Museum, housed in a modern spacious building, is situated in the
Napier Museum and Zoo complex. The museum has a varied and rich collection of minerals and books presented by General Cullen in 1885. The museum has separate galleries for mammals, birds, lower vertebrates, invertebrates, separate room for index collections, skeleton gallery, an ethnographic collection, and a laboratory. There is also an outdoor exhibit of fossil tree trunks near the entrance of the museum. The art collection covers aspects of
Kerala's rich heritage in sculptures of stone, wood and metal. An interesting replica of
Tharawad is also present in the museum.
