Collections management: consulting

The collections are complemented by a range of databases and the world's finest natural history library. As well as being a research institute, the Natural History Museum is a major national attraction with 1.8 million visitors per year, and it is an important educational resource that has an ambitious exhibition and development programme.

As the world's biodiversity becomes endangered, the importance of developing and preserving natural history collections increases, as does the need for study and public education. The Museum is ideally placed to provide training courses, services and consultancy that will enable researchers, curators and others to develop the required high standards of stewardship, curatorial and museum skills.

We can offer assistance in:

• seminars, short courses, tailored courses, individual tuition, or formal courses in a wide range of collections based and museum subjects training is given in identification, collecting, curation, conservation, collections management, education, exhibition, design and other aspects of museolog
• identifications and advice relating to business and industry, environment, public health, customs and quarantine, food contamination, forensic science, expert witness and identification of jewellery and auction items advice to the media, evaluation of publisher's material, commercial loans, filming, use of images in advertising and publications
• advice to institutions, capacity development, technology transfer, peer review, collections development and museology, planning and design, exhibition and education services
• contract research, conservation or curation, access to the collections and data collections management, specialist curation or preservation and other collections-based consultancy

Find out more about our recent Collections management projects.