The National Museum of Natural Sciences (Spanish: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales) is a natural history museum in Madrid, Spain.

The museum traces back its origin to the Real Gabinete de Historia Natural [es], created in 1771 by Charles III.

The gabinete was refounded as Real Museo de Historia Natural in 1815.

[1] It changed names until its current denomination,[2] received in 1913.

[3] The museum originally hosted a collection donated by a Spanish merchant, Pedro F. Dávila.