Museums:

Museum refers to any institution or organization that owns and manages scientific collections. This includes Institutional Collections, Personal Collections, Project Collections. Specimens associated with a museum are grouped by the information in the "owned by" field in specimen records.

Kinds of Collections Antweb

•    Institutional Collections are those that have been formally accessioned into an institution and are curated and cared for by the institution. Example: BMNH


•    Personal Collections are under the control of an individual researcher and are not formally associated with or accessioned into an institution. They may be the personal property of a private collector. We hope all private collectors have a plan to eventually donate their collection to an institution which will provide long-term care for the specimens. Example: PSWC, Ward


•    Research Collections are those collected by a researcher or research team that may not be formally accessioned into its collections. Project Collections may eventually become part of the Institutional Collections or remain under the management and control of the individual researchers. Example: EcoFoG, Kourou

Name	Title	Species	Specimen	Images
ABS	Archbold Biological Station	239	10341	2543
AFRC	Afribugs Collection	577	20057	7979
BMNH	British Museum of Natural History	145	680	418
CASC	California Academy of Sciences	49	73	151
EcoFoG	Ecology of French Guiana Forests	425	731	2188
FMNH	The Field Museum	1443	35495	1747
HNHM	Hungarian Natural History Museum	260	323	1183
JTLC	John T. Longino Collection	2445	144746	8638
KGAC	Kiko Gomez Abal Collection	684	9589	83
MCZC	Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge	678	3416	1961
MHNG	Museum of Natural History, Geneva	3619	6428	22905
MMPC	Matthew M. Prebus Collection	544	10363	38
MSNG	Natural History Museum, Genoa	1883	2514	10275
NHMB	Natural History Museum, Basel	2145	3449	13534
NHMW	Museum of Natural History Vienna	693	950	3624
PSWC	Philip S. Ward Collection	2483	14695	11359
SIZK	Schmalhausen Institute	555	890	4522
SMNG	Staatliches Museum fur Naturkunde Gorlitz	216	343	2534
UCDC	University of California, Davis	1502	12086	6180
UFV-LABECOL	Laboratorio de Ecologia de Comunidades UFV	0	0	0
USNM	Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History	1229	4052	5115
UTIC	University of Texas Insect Collection	882	4538	17
ZMHB	Museum fur Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universitat Berlin	1024	2342	12133