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

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

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

On May 8th and 9th 2025, NatSCA hosted 'Making a Difference: Showing the Positive Impact of Natural History Collections', the 2025 NatSCA Conference at the Manchester Museum.

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.

Natural History Museum to lead new national programme to digitise the UK’s natural science collections

27th Mar 2024

Funding of £155 million for a 10-year programme has been announced by the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology as part of the UKRI Infrastructure Fund.