Our mission is to investigate and promote the understanding of the history of life and the diversity of the Earth's biota through research and education.
The University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) is primarily a research museum. Its collections are only open to the public on Cal Day. However, visitors can see the free-sta
The Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ) at the University of California, Berkeley, is a center for research and education in the biology of amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.
To collect, preserve, research, and interpret the global record of material culture, so as to promote the understanding of the history and diversity of human cultures.
The Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, was founded in 1901 by Phoebe Apperson Hearst who envisioned the Museum as the cultural cornerstone of one of the world’s
The Essig Museum of Entomology on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley houses an active research collection of over 5,000,000 terrestrial arthropods. The Essig Museum is now
BNHM Collections total over 12 million specimens & represent the most complete holdings of living and extinct California flora and fauna.
The origins of the BNHM member institutions date to the period between 1880 and 1920 a time when natural history and the study of humanity were intimately linked.
