Natural history collections around the world collectively hold more than 1 billion specimens, spanning a wide variety of ...

Across the world, natural history museums hold about 3 billion specimens of plants and animals in collections—and these collections may also contain information needed to prevent, prepare for, and ...

Museum collections have underpinned scientific research for centuries. But physical specimens in boxes and drawers don’t easily lend themselves to the research techniques of the new millennium. “How ...

This year, NMNH director Kirk Johnson helped spearhead an effort to add up the collections of the world’s largest museums Jack Tamisiea A small fraction of the more than 50 million specimens housed in ...

Natural history collections housed in museums and herbaria are generally not on display to the public – what visitors see represents only a tiny section of the wealth held behind locked doors. What ...

Specimens like these at Dublin’s Natural History Museum contain valuable information about the evolution of pathogens and host organisms. Kieran Guckian via Flickr under CC BY 2.0 In less than 20 ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has a long-standing tradition of collecting objects that capture and document the broad history of American democracy and politics. The Political ...

Some of the world’s most popular museums are natural history collections: Think of dinosaur fossils, gemstones and preserved animals. Herbaria – collections of pressed, dried plant specimens – are a ...

The AHC's Military History collections document the service of Wyomingites in the military, the service of soldiers in Wyoming, and the American military on the Western frontier. The AHC also has some ...

Newly published digital collections at Cornell University Library explore areas of Cornell history – from the papers of a nationally renowned, independent poetry press that started as an English ...