If natural history museums can be said to have a problem, it's that they have too many specimens for any one person to see and not nearly enough exhibit space to show them off. The Florida Museum of Natural History, for example, is home to more than 40 million specimens and objects. According to Jul ie Waters, manager of exhibit planning and development at the Florida Museum, only about 1,500 specimens are on display at any given time, which is 0.0038% of the total collection. ...read more read less