Institutions

Natural history collections represented in expedition specimens

AMNH
American Museum of Natural History
🌐 amnh.org
🔬 44,822 specimens 🗺 116 expeditions 🖼 696
YPM
Yale Peabody Museum
📍 New Haven, US
🌐 peabody.yale.edu
🔬 13,156 specimens 🗺 17 expeditions 🖼 2,881
K
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
📍 Kew, GB
🌐 kew.org/science/collections
🔬 11,181 specimens 🗺 92 expeditions 🖼 11,030
US
University of Stellenbosch
🌐 academic.sun.ac.za/foodsci
🔬 11,144 specimens 🗺 63 expeditions 🖼 10,652
MCZ
Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology
📍 Cambridge, US
🌐 mcz.harvard.edu
🔬 10,179 specimens 🗺 91 expeditions 🖼 1,105
COI
Herbarium of the University of Coimbra
📍 Coimbra, PT
🌐 uc.pt/herbario_digital
🔬 7,056 specimens 🗺 10 expeditions 🖼 6,443
NY
The New York Botanical Garden
📍 Bronx, US
🌐 nybg.org
🔬 6,646 specimens 🗺 64 expeditions 🖼 6,435
NMNZ
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
📍 Wellington, NZ
🌐 tepapa.govt.nz
🔬 5,235 specimens 🗺 50 expeditions 🖼 2,835
BRI
Queensland Herbarium & Biodiversity Science
📍 Brisbane, AU
🌐 qld.gov.au/herbarium
🔬 4,517 specimens 🗺 13 expeditions 🖼 895
CANB
Australian National Herbarium
📍 Canberra, AU
🌐 anbg.gov.au/cpbr
🔬 3,495 specimens 🗺 25 expeditions
AD
State Herbarium of South Australia
📍 Adelaide, AU
🌐 flora.sa.gov.au
🔬 2,982 specimens 🗺 10 expeditions 🖼 3
A
Harvard University
📍 Cambridge, US
🌐 huh.harvard.edu
🔬 2,945 specimens 🗺 24 expeditions 🖼 2,842
MICH
University of Michigan
📍 Ann Arbor, US
🌐 herbarium.lsa.umich.edu
🔬 2,755 specimens 🗺 32 expeditions 🖼 2,413
NRM
Swedish Museum of Natural History (NRM)
📍 Stockholm, SE
🌐 nrm.se
🔬 2,602 specimens 🗺 22 expeditions 🖼 69
S
Department of Botany - Swedish Museum of Natural History
📍 Stockholm, SE
🌐 nrm.se/en/forskningochsamlingar/botanik.8999708.html
🔬 2,588 specimens 🗺 37 expeditions 🖼 1,021
MNHN
MNHN - Museum national d'Histoire naturelle
📍 Paris, FR
🌐 mnhn.fr
🔬 2,554 specimens 🗺 57 expeditions 🖼 2,252
MEL
Museo Entomologico de Leon
📍 Leon, NI
🌐 bio-nica.info
🔬 2,452 specimens 🗺 33 expeditions 🖼 354
USNM
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History
📍 Washington, US
🌐 naturalhistory.si.edu/research
🔬 2,342 specimens 🗺 51 expeditions 🖼 2,042
GH
Harvard University
📍 Cambridge, US
🌐 huh.harvard.edu
🔬 2,215 specimens 🗺 39 expeditions 🖼 2,074
CAS
Unknown institution
🔬 2,085 specimens 🗺 51 expeditions 🖼 1,072
MSC
McWane Science Center
🌐 mcwane.org
🔬 2,039 specimens 🗺 7 expeditions 🖼 20
FMNH
Field Museum of Natural History
📍 Chicago, US
🌐 fieldmuseum.org
🔬 1,791 specimens 🗺 33 expeditions 🖼 138
MWLR
Unknown institution
🔬 1,767 specimens 🗺 10 expeditions
F
Field Museum of Natural History
📍 Chicago, US
🌐 collections-botany.fieldmuseum.org
🔬 1,721 specimens 🗺 19 expeditions 🖼 1,697
NSW
Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust
📍 Mount Annan, AU
🌐 botanicgardens.org.au
🔬 1,625 specimens 🗺 20 expeditions 🖼 1,507
New Zealand Arthropod Collection
Unknown institution
🔬 1,470 specimens 🗺 15 expeditions 🖼 8
UPS
The Linnaean Gardens of Uppsala, Uppsala University
📍 Uppsala, SE
🌐 uu.se/en/linnaeus-garden
🔬 1,419 specimens 🗺 23 expeditions
B
ZE Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum, Freie Universität Berlin
📍 Berlin, DE
🌐 bgbm.org/en/herbarium
🔬 1,311 specimens 🗺 55 expeditions 🖼 1,290
CHR
New Zealand Institute for Bioeconomy Science Limited
📍 Christchurch, NZ
🌐 landcareresearch.co.nz/tools-and-resources/collections/allan-herbarium
🔬 1,238 specimens 🗺 41 expeditions 🖼 248
ANSP
Academy of Natural Sciences
📍 Philadelphia, US
🌐 ansp.org/research/systematics-evolution/collections/diatom-herbarium
🔬 1,076 specimens 🗺 19 expeditions 🖼 940