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

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

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.

Trials and Triumphs: sharing practice across the museum sector

On April 18th and 19th 2024, NatSCA hosted 'Trials and Triumphs: sharing practice across the museum sector', the 2024 NatSCA Conference at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.