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Data Portal

Explore and download the Museum’s research and collections data.

Search 5,993,734 of the Museum's 80 million specimens.

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Image viewer

An interactive image viewer allowing users to zoom in on images in our datasets, including high-resolution photographs of pinned insect drawers.

Butterfly types

View some of the Museum’s invaluable butterfly reference material.

Index lots

Access the catalogue of index lot records, used to record the presence of some entomological and zoological species in the Museum collection.

Aphid Slide Digitisation

Browse the museum's fully digitised collection of Aphidoidea slides! Over the past 14 months, digitisers at the museum have imaged more than 200,000 of these slides.

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Explore

Explore the Museum's collection and research data.

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Download

Datasets are available for download or via an API.

Cite

Reference Museum data in your research with the dataset DOI.