Research and Specimens Collections at the Swedish Museum of Natural History

Our collections constitute an amazing archive of the natural world and our research laboratories are of world-class. The SMNH has online databases and collections on Phanerogamic Botany (seed plants), Palynological Laboratory (pollen analyses), Cryptogamic Botany (fungi, lichens, algae, bryophytes, etc.), Entomology (insects, arachnids, myriapods), Invertebrate Zoology (corals, different kinds of worms, gastropods, bivalves, crustaceans, seastars, sea urchins, etc.), Vertebrate Zoology (fish, amphimbians, mammals, reptiles, birds, etc.), Bird Ringing Centre (administration of bird ringing in Sweden), Palaeobotany (fossil plants) Palaeozoology (fossil animals), Mineralogy (minerals), Contaminant Research Group (monitoring of environmental contaminants), The Environmental Specimen Bank Laboratory for Isotope Geology (isotope analysis of rocks, mineral, sediments, water and environmental samples), Laboratory of Molecular Systematics (analyses of DNA).

(Source: SMNH )