Borrowing from the zoology collections

Specimens from the Zoology Department’s collections are available for loan for scientific study or exhibitions subject to certain conditions.

  • Green pit viper, Tropidolaemus wagleri
    Research loans

    Find out how to arrange a loan of zoology collection material for scientific research purposes.

  • Child looking at a tiger exhibit on display
    Exhibition loans

    Key contacts and information for those wishing to borrow material for non-research purposes.

Database templates

If you prepare a database of part of our collection while visiting or borrowing material from us we will ask you to use a template that is compatible with our electronic collections management system. This will enable us to import the data.