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Research collections of the National Museum of Natural History are available to the public for the following ten museum collection units:
- Department of Anthropology (497,607 records)
- Department of Botany (4,560,980 records)
- Department of Entomology (727,566 records)
- Department of Invertebrate Zoology (1,991,895 records)
- Department of Mineral Sciences (463,824 records)
- Department of Paleobiology (725,344 records)
- Department of Vertebrate Zoology:
- Division of Amphibians & Reptiles (612,617 records)
- Division of Birds (592,884 records)
- Division of Fishes (499,273 records)
- Division of Mammals (625,995 records)
A total of 11,304,541 specimen records are currently available from this facility. Of these, approximately 292,000 represent all of the museum's available extant biological primary type specimen records. Approximately 139,000 are paleobiological type specimen records and 560 are mineral type specimen records. About 1.5 million of these specimen records are georeferenced.
Please note that these electronic data do not represent the museum's full collection or all electronic or currently digitized specimen records. We constantly add new data and correct information in records. If you see an error in these data please contact us with appropriate details. These data are made available through a custom online facility that is a part of the museum's Research and Collections Information System (RCIS).