DK-SNM-KU Passport Collections

Identification and description

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Outstanding collection features

One of the world’s largest indoor Cycad-collections, Thai Orchids, Galápagos plants – Island endemics in General, Succulents. Entomology: The collections include more than 3.5 million pinned insects plus a similar number of alcohol-preserved specimens; they thus range among the largest in Europe. The number of identified species in the collections totals about 100,000, i.e., about 10% of the described species. There are about 10,500 primary types. Vertebrates: The fish collection holds about one third of the 25,000 known species. The main bird collection comprises study skins, well above 100,000 specimens of 5700 species. The mammal collections hold approximately 40,000 specimens - preserved either as skins + skulls (or whole skeletons), mounted specimens, or whole specimens or parts in alcohol or formalin.

http://geologi.snm.ku.dk/english/

http://botanik.snm.ku.dk/english/

The Zoology collections contains a Entomology section counting 7,000,000 individual specimens.

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Genetic repositories

Link to genetic repository e.g. Index Seminum

Does your institution have a DNA bank?

Yes

Number of DNA samples

3 500

Does your institution have a seed bank?

Yes

Number of organisms / species

2 682

DNA or seed sample exchange

Yes, with many collaborators

Presently not produced due to shortage of staff.

Size and importance of living collections

Botanic Garden The Botanic Garden includes 23,462 living plants, all digitally registered and representing 313 families, 2,707 genera and 12,287 species, originating from 17,870 accession numbers. A number of plants for experimental use are not registered. The gene bank in the garden holds seeds of about 800 Danish plants, 1,000 species from the garden's own collections and 150 accessions of seeds of special interest for research; furthermore about 50 plants are maintained as tissue cultures in the tissue culture laboratory.

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EARTH SCIENCES (Geology, Mineralogy, Palaeontology,…)


	Typology	Individual specimens/objects
1.1	Botany	2600000
1.2	Mycology	200000
1.3	Paleontology	500000
1.4	Mineralogy	200000
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LIFE SCIENCES (Zoology, Biology, Botany, Mycology,…)


	Typology	Primary types	Individual specimens/objects	% registered cards	% recorded cards in database
2.1	Zoology		10400000

Heritage Science

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The large Heritage Science Collection of NHMD was recently transferred to the Royal Library (http://www.kb.dk/en/).

The museum still hold a smaller selection of books, maps, correspondence and photographs.

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