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Organising
With 60 million life science specimens, how do we keep track of them all? How do we incorporate new additions? |
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Preserving
We aim to keep our specimens in good condition for hundreds of years. How do we prepare fresh material for the long store? |
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Physical access
How do we make the specimens available to researchers? |
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Conserving
Once in the stores, how do we look after specimens and minimise their degradation? |
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Access to information
How do we give researchers and the public the information held within our collections? |
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Identifying specimens
How do our researchers know what something is? How do they rely on the collections? |