Visiting the Natural History Museum Collections

 

The Natural History Museum in London houses large, globally significant collections of living and fossil echinoderms, including many type, figured and historically important specimens. The collections include representatives of all major extinct and extant groups from across the globe.

Further information on the living echinoderm collection: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/services/collections/zoology/echinodermata-deuterostome-invertebrates.html

 

Further information on the fossil echinoderm collection: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/services/collections/palaeontology/fossil-echinoderms.html

 

If you would like to visit the collections before or after the European Conference on Echinoderms, please contact Hugh Carter (h.carter@nhm.ac.uk) for living echinoderms or Tim Ewin (t.ewin@nhm.ac.uk) for fossil echinoderms as soon as possible.

 

On Thursday 9th July and Friday 10th July, the Natural History Museum will host an informal pre-conference collections mixer. As part of this, you will have the opportunity to study and help catalogue unworked material in the Museum’s collections. This will be open to all conference attendees regardless of their career stage or expertise and provides a chance to meet and network with colleagues and learn about working on natural history collections. Please contact Hugh Carter (h.carter@nhm.ac.uk) if you are interested in participating.

Illustrations from the Natural History Museum