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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A group of natural history museums, organized by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., the American Museum of Natural History Museum in New York City and the ...

The digitization of natural history collections has transformed centuries-old cabinets of specimens into dynamic digital archives that underpin modern biodiversity science. By converting physical ...

Natural history museums contain an astonishing snapshot of the planet's biodiversity. Using this information to better research and inform conservation projects could help lead the way in nature ...

Approximately 145 million: That's the number of specimens—including plants, animals, minerals, and human artifacts—curators ...

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Less than 10% of the UK’s natural history collections have currently been digitised. Bringing down the barriers separating scientists from the country’s 137 million natural history specimens could ...