RESEARCH / COLLECTIONS

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COLLECTIONS

The Museum’s research activity of the past four decades consists of:

• Extensive field research and collecting
• Recording, and identifying species
• Introduction into data banks
• Publication of articles and papers in the Museum’s scientific journal
• International publications
• Ecological/landscaping studies of areas of particular environmental interest
• Thematic exhibitions in Greece and abroad and
• Scientific research in cooperation with Greek and international scientific centres.

The Museum’s collections number hundreds of thousands of specimens and are a precious national capital, the country’s data bank, the basis for all scientific research and application in the fields of environmental policy, agriculture and forestry.

The collections’ specimens are the basis from which conclusions can be drawn concerning the modern as well as the older environment.
Furthermore, they are a remarkable tool for the development of educational and publishing activities.

In the framework of the Information Society program entitled “Documentation, Digitization and Promotion of Collections of Goulandris Museum of Natural History” the digital documentation of samples was carried out (data input of 81,000 samples from Botany, Marine biology, Terrestrial Zoology and Geology – Paleontology collections and digitization of 6,000 samples from such collections). A representative sample of the digitized material may be electronically searched for at the Museum’s Collections Data Base.

Botanical Collection

Herpetology Collection

Entomological Collection

Paleontological Collection

Marine Biology Collection

Ornithology Collection

Mineral Collection

Mammals Collection