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Species Discovery
Museum Centre
Linking our core strengths to advance and enhance the impact and reach of what we do. More.
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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.
Collections
Animals, fossils, minerals, plants and algae—more than 14.6 million specimens are preserved in Canada's natural-history collection.
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Online Database
Access data from the museum's collections: search, map results, and download data and images. Search our collections.
Science Experts
The museum's multidisciplinary team specializes in collection-based research in the life sciences and Earth sciences.
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Visiting-Scientist Awards
Doing collection-based systematics studies at the museum? We award travel grants. Apply now.
Extraordinary Arctic
Check out this view on Arctic-related activities, events, research, etc. at the museum.
Library and Archives
The library and archives are open by appointment. Search our catalogue online.
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See all posts »- Ottawa lazurite find points to undiscovered Canadian deposit
Michel Picard tells the fascinating story of a mysterious Ottawa mineral find that ties together glaciers and one of Canada's great mineral photographers.
- Museum’s millions-strong Arctic marine invertebrates collection gets digitized
Thanks to Beaty family donation, the museum is digitizing the collection information for its millions of Arctic marine invertebrates, writes Samantha Brooksbank.
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