Electronic inventory of European bird collections
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305 Institutions
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Institution Name 305 |
City 287 |
Country 44 |
 Skins3,876,694 |
 Egg Sets 684,489 |
 Skeletons 286,249 |
 Mounts 286,142 |
 Spirit 84,577 |
 Nests 30,127 |
 Other 219,205 |
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| Staatliches Naturhistorisches Museum (SNMBG) | Braunschweig | Germany | 30,000 | 10,300 | 2,800 | 3,000 | 300 | 700 | n/a |
| Zoologisches Institut und Zoologisches Museum (ZMH) | Hamburg | Germany | 30,000 | 2,000 | 4,000 | n/a | 2,000 | n/a | 20,000 |
| Finnish Museum of Natural History (ZMUH) | Helsinki | Finland | 29,000 | n/a | 1,200 | n/a | 900 | 800 | 800 |
| Národní Muzeum (NMP) | Prague / Praha | Czech Republic | 27,500 | 5,000 | 2,000 | 6,500 | 300 | n/a | 900 |
| Naturhistorisches Museum (NMBA) | Basel | Switzerland | 25,000 | n/a | 1,800 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Naturhistoriska Museet (GNM) | Gothenburg | Sweden | 25,000 | 10,000 | 8,000 | 3,548 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Zoologisk Museum (ZMUO) | Oslo | Norway | 25,000 | 6,500 | 1,000 | n/a | 500 | n/a | 5,000 |
| Museum d’Histoire Naturelle de Nantes (MHNNT) | Nantes | France | 22,100 | 8,757 | 108 | n/a | n/a | 124 | 365 |
| Estacíon Biologica de Doñana (EBD) | Seville / Sevilla | Spain | 22,000 | 1,344 | 1,000 | n/a | 575 | n/a | n/a |
| Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali (MRSN) | Turin / Torino | Italy | 21,000 | n/a | > 100 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Museum d’Histoire Naturelle de Genève (MHNG) | Geneva | Switzerland | 20,181 | 18,532 | c. 1,946 | 3,955 | 423 | 510 | n/a |
| National Museum & Galleries of Wales (NMWC) | Cardiff | United Kingdom | 20,000 | 8,000 | 500 | n/a | n/a | 200 | 40,000 |
| Überseemuseum (UMB) | Bremen | Germany | > 20,000 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Zoologisk Museum (ZMUL) | Lund | Sweden | 20,000 | 8,393 | 1,000 | n/a | 800 | 400 | 2,000 |
| Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas CSIC) (MNCN) | Madrid | Spain | 19,800 | 161 | 4,122 | 2,644 | 3,404 | 247 | 13,084 |
| The Harrison Zoological Museum (HZM) | Sevenoaks | England | 19,500 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUM) | Oxford | United Kingdom | 19,000 | 2,000 | 1,500 | n/a | 500 | n/a | n/a |
| Museo Zoologico de ‘La Specola’ (MZUF) | Florence / Firenze | Italy | 18,000 | 350 | 2,500 | n/a | 300 | 100 | n/a |
| Museum Heineanum (MH) | Halberstadt | Germany | 18,000 | 6,000 | 2,000 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| National Museum of Natural History (NMNHS/NZMS) | Sofia | Bulgaria | 15,500 | 260 | 2,000 | n/a | 50 | 12 | 13,000 |
| Museo Civico di Zoologia di Roma (MZGZ) | Rome / Roma | Italy | 15,000 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| The Manchester Museum (MANCH) | Manchester | United Kingdom | 14,637 | 11,527 | n/a | 3,000 | 120 | 271 | n/a |
| Naturkunde-Museum Coburg (NMC) | Coburg | Germany | 14,500 | 0 | 15 | 14,000 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Náttúrufraedistafnun Islands (IMNH /NHMR) | Reykjavik | Iceland | 14,000 | 2,600 | 1,500 | n/a | 100 | 650 | n/a |
| Naturhistorisches Museum Bern (NMBE) | Bern | Switzerland | 13,200 | 8,550 | 1,200 | n/a | 100 | 410 | n/a |