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Zoological collections

Bergen Museum is keeping comprehensive zoological collections and archives. These are accessible for research purposes and are extensively used by an international community of researchers in fields such as biosystematics, taxonomy, evolutionary biology, palaeoecology, archaeology. Millions of preserved specimens of invertebrates and vertebrates are kept as indispensibe research material for zoology and other research fields. Loans of reseach material or other queries concerning the collections should be addressed to the staff of the relevant collection unit.

En dyphavsfisk i Bergen Museums samlinger

Vertebrate collections

The vertebrate collections contain about 21.000 samples of 3.174 species. An addtional collection of vertebrate bones is kept in a separtate unit, the Ostelogical collections.

Jaw bone from a deep sea fish

Osteological collections

Recent and bioarchaeological bone material is collected and kept in Osteological section. The animal bones have been collected from around the country. It is the largest bone collection in Norway and one of the largest in Europe.

A bark beetle in the collections of Bergen Museum

Entomology collections

The Entomological collections contain research material of all extant terrestrial and aquatic arthropod groups except crustaceans:Hexapoda, Myriopoda, Tardigrada, Arachnoidea and Cheliceratea.

30.01.2019