Natural history musems

[Vulpes]

Wasnt really sure where to put this but does anyone know if British and Irish Natural history museums keep an online database of their specimens available to the public? If so does anyone know how to access them? I want to find out of there are any British or Irish wolf pelts or stuffed animals on display.

 

[Tim May]

Wasnt really sure where to put this but does anyone know if British and Irish Natural history museums keep an online database of their specimens available to the public? If so does anyone know how to access them? I want to find out of there are any British or Irish wolf pelts or stuffed animals on display.

Oxford University’s Natural History Museum does have an on-line database listing its zoological specimens. See the link below:-

O.U.M.N.H. Zoology: Databases

I don’t know if any other museums have a similar on-line database.

 

[gentle lemur]

Manchester Museum's on-line zoology database.
The Manchester Museum Collection Database

Alan

 

[Vulpes]

Thanks guys!

 

[Panthera Puss]

There's the Grant Museum of Zoology at UCL (mostly bones / skeletons I think):

Internet Server 3

The National Museum of Scotland holds a lot of biological specimens, many of which are not on show at the regular museum:

Our collections

National Museums Collection Centre

(I find the online NMS searches difficult to use myself, btw).