A new special collection of natural history collection related articles from BioScience highlights some of the exciting new ways scientists and educators are mobilizing and using biodiversity data from natural history collections. The collection entitled, “Natural History Collections: Advancing the Frontiers of Science,” is available at https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/pages/natural-history-collections.

Natural Science Collections Alliance
Our members are part of an international community of museums, botanical gardens, herbariums, universities and other institutions that house natural science collections and utilize them in research, exhibitions, academic and informal science education, and outreach activities.