Research and Collections

Open House: Our Collections

Gatineau—Oct. 13

Admire the vast collections housed at our Gatineau campus and meet our researchers.
Species Discovery

Museum Centre

Linking our core strengths to advance and enhance the impact and reach of what we do. More.
Arctic Centre

Knowledge and Exploration

Expanding our capacity to meet Arctic environmental challenges and inspire future Arctic scientists.

Collections-Based Research to Understand the Natural World

The Canadian Museum of Nature is a scientific leader in species discovery and Arctic research.

Discover the millions of specimens housed in our Gatineau campus, as well as the research activities that take place there.

Our multidisciplinary team of scientists conduct leading-edge research in the natural sciences.

Animals, fossils, minerals, plants and algae—more than 14.6 million specimens are preserved in Canada's natural-history collection.

Access data from the museum's collections: search, map results, and download data and images. Search our collections.

The museum's multidisciplinary team specializes in collection-based research in the life sciences and Earth sciences.

Doing collection-based systematics studies at the museum? We award travel grants. Apply now.

Check out this view on Arctic-related activities, events, research, etc. at the museum.

The library and archives are open by appointment. Search our catalogue online.

Finnish moth species is asexual with benefits
Veronica Chevasco reports that a species of Finnish moth is asexual with benefits.
Collecting diatoms in sunny Italy: Citizen scientist brings specimens for museum’s collection
Museum volunteer Joe Holmes reports on his Italian vacation that included Pompei, St. Peter's Basilica...and collecting diatoms.