Hence it was the imperial Western countries, utilizing their advanced technology to gather materials from their colonies, who assembled the first museum collections on natural science.
不過，早期自然史館得以建立，多是大帝國藉著國力至殖民地搜集資料。二次大戰後，聯合國教科文組織為了袪除帝國主義色彩，希望自然史館改稱為自然科學博物館。