The
Cleveland Museum of Natural History is a
natural history museum located approximately five miles (8 km) east of downtown
Cleveland, Ohio in
University Circle, a 550-acre (220 ha) concentration of educational, cultural and medical institutions. The museum was established in 1920 by
Cyrus S. Eaton to perform research, education and development of collections in the fields of
anthropology,
archaeology,
astronomy,
botany,
geology,
paleontology, wildlife biology, and
zoology.