Welcome to NatSCA, we are a UK based membership organisation and charity that represents natural science collections and the people that work with them.

  • herbarium
  • fossil
  • barnacles
  • Bird skin
  • Skulls
  • horns
  • Bismuth
  • Insect Drawer
  • Chameleon
  • Herbarium curation
  • Entomology curation
  • Herbarium sheet
  • caterpillars
  • index cards
  • fox
  • fluid specimens

A Practical Introduction to Museum Disaster Management

7th Feb 2025

RHS Garden Wisley, Wisley Lane, Surrey, GU23 6QB

Although we do our best to avoid them, we should always be prepared for a disaster so that when they do happen, we have the best possible outcome.

Call for Papers: NatSCA 2025

8th May 2025 to 9th May 2025

The Manchester Museum, The University of Manchester

Making a Difference: Showing the Positive Impact of Natural History Collections

An Introduction to Natural Science Collections Georeferencing

22nd Nov 2024

Zoom

Many of us with historic collections will be familiar with how opaque the information on a label can be, through poor handwriting, placenames that no longer exist, being written in a different language or they can just be incredibly vague.