Collections & research

The museum’s scientific collections are regularly used by researchers and students from all over the world, either during visits to the museum or through loans. The museum is involved in a number of research projects in cooperation with various research groups, both nationally and internationally.

A major project with the museum collections is to digitize them in order to make them both useful and accessible. Registration of objects is an ongoing process and a lot of work remains to be done. There are currently four portals or search functions: search in the zoological collections, search in the insect collection, search in the geology catalogue and search in the photograph collection.