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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| The Natural History Museum (BMNH or NHM) | Tring | United Kingdom | 750,000 | 200,000 | 15,187 | 6,000 | 17,135 | 4,000 | n/a |
| Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK) | Bonn | Germany | 76,000 | 60,000 | 2,000 | 3,500 | 500 | n/a | n/a |
| National Museums of Scotland (RSM/ NMSE) | Edinburgh | United Kingdom | 62,000 | 45,000 | 6,000 | n/a | > 200 | 400 | n/a |
| Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet (NRM) | Stockholm | Sweden | 116,000 | 29,000 | 26,000 | 8,000 | 1,700 | 500 | n/a |
| Institut für Zoologie (IZH) | Halle | Germany | 9,063 | 20,000 | 6,300 | 2,100 | 0 | > 100 | n/a |
| Museum d’Histoire Naturelle de Genève (MHNG) | Geneva | Switzerland | 20,181 | 18,532 | c. 1,946 | 3,955 | 423 | 510 | n/a |
| Zoologisk Museum (ZMUC) | Copenhagen | Denmark | 97,000 | 17,000 | 14,000 | 5,000 | 10,000 | n/a | 20,000 |
| Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden | Dresden | Germany | 67,000 | 16,000 | > 3,000 | 7,800 | > 100 | > 950 | 7,700 |
| Liverpool Museum (LivCM) | Liverpool | United Kingdom | 48,192 | 12,000 | 700 | n/a | n/a | 180 | n/a |
| Oxfordshire County Council Museums | Witney | United Kingdom | n/a | 12,000 | 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 |
| Staatliches Naturhistorisches Museum (SNMBG) | Braunschweig | Germany | 30,000 | 10,300 | 2,800 | 3,000 | 300 | 700 | n/a |
| Booth Museum of Natural History (BMB) | Brighton | United Kingdom | > 5,000 | > 10,000 | n/a | > 5,000 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum (GLAMG) | Glasgow | United Kingdom | 6,400 | 10,000 | 250 | 900 | n/a | 100 | 1,800 |
| Great North Museum: Hancock (NEWHM) | Newcastle | United Kingdom | 12,000 | 10,000 | 200 | n/a | 10 | 1,000 | n/a |
| Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (NMW) | Vienna / Wien | Austria | 95,000 | 10,000 | 11,200 | 10,700 | 300 | 1,000 | 6,100 |
| Naturhistoriska Museet (GNM) | Gothenburg | Sweden | 25,000 | 10,000 | 8,000 | 3,548 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde (SMNS) | Stuttgart | Germany | 70,000 | 10,000 | 6,000 | 12,500 | 350 | 1,000 | 10,500 |
| Museum d’Histoire Naturelle de Nantes (MHNNT) | Nantes | France | 22,100 | 8,757 | 108 | n/a | n/a | 124 | 365 |
| Naturhistorisches Museum Bern (NMBE) | Bern | Switzerland | 13,200 | 8,550 | 1,200 | n/a | 100 | 410 | n/a |
| Zoological Museum (ZMMU) | Moscow / Moskva | Russia | 117,000 | 8,500 | 2,000 | n/a | 3,000 | n/a | n/a |
| Zoologisk Museum (ZMUL) | Lund | Sweden | 20,000 | 8,393 | 1,000 | n/a | 800 | 400 | 2,000 |
| National Museum & Galleries of Wales (NMWC) | Cardiff | United Kingdom | 20,000 | 8,000 | 500 | n/a | n/a | 200 | 40,000 |
| University Museum of Zoology (CUMZ) | Cambridge | United Kingdom | 40,000 | c. 8,000 | 2,200 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Zoologisk Museum (ZMUO) | Oslo | Norway | 25,000 | 6,500 | 1,000 | n/a | 500 | n/a | 5,000 |