Programmes and infrastructures

Natural history collections held by the Museum and other institutions represent an immense resource in understanding our environment. As such, they make up a veritable research infrastructure. National and European programmes and partnerships facilitate physical and virtual access to these vast collections.

    Fossile de Sphecoptera brongniarti

    The Distributed System for Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) is a new European research infrastructure (RI) for natural science...

    Naturalistes de Récolnat

    Around 120 million objects are conserved in naturalist collections across France, representing around 5% of global collections...

    The members and founders of CETAF, the Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities, the Muséum national d’Histoire Naturelle and...