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Natural History Museums: This is a list of museums that have significant collections of Indian biodiversity.

Indian Museums:
National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR, Bengaluru
Zoological Survey of India, several branches across India
Botanical Survey of India, several branches across India
Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa (popularly known as the Pusa Institute)
Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai
Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow
Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun
ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources (NBAIR), Bengaluru
University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru and Dharwad

Foreign Museums:
Natural History Museum, London
Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris
American Museum of Natural History, New York
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida

Labeling Natural History Collections

Insect and Spider Collections of the World Website

Museum Pests

 

Collections in Numbers

  • No. of specimens: 50,000
  • Frozen tissue library: 21,000 specimens
  • Type specimens: approx. 100
  • New species: approx. 30
  • Global taxonomic collaborations: 6
  • Number of publications: approx. 85
  • Data repatriation: 15,000 specimens

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Prof. Krushnamegh Kunte
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The Biodiversity Lab Research Collections
National Centre for Biological Sciences
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
GKVK Campus, Bellary Road
Bengaluru 560065, India
Email: krushnamegh@ncbs.res.in
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