The Museum has over 25 million pinned insects in the collection with extensive taxonomic and geographic information dating back 300 years The Digital Collections Programme has refined our pinned ...

Collected by the iconic American writer John Steinbeck, the octopus has received a number of scientific monikers Chihiro Kai Museum specialist Katie Ahlfeld holds up an octopus specimen that was ...

Big Bee Bonanza is seeking Virtual Volunteers! Interested in supporting bee research and conservation? You can BEE part of science by becoming a community volunteer and transcribing specimen labels: ...

A well-curated collection of local grasshoppers is useful for identification and display. Insect taxonomists often identify species by comparing unknown specimens with identified museum specimens.

The Museum has around 2.5 million microscope slides in its collections, which are either vertically or horizontally stored. The Digital Collections Programme has developed a slide digitisation ...

More than 1,700 animal and plant specimens from the collection of eminent British geologist Sir Charles Lyell - known as the pioneer of modern geology - were organised, digitised and made openly ...

During this time, collection visits will be available by appointment and other special access requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please email [email protected] for more ...