Skip to content

Data Portal

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

Datasets

4 datasets found

Formats:
PDF
Contributors:
Natural History Museum (London)

DatasetAuthorTypeLicence

Join the Dots collection-level descriptions

The records in this dataset provide a high-level summary of the Natural History Museum's collection and encompass the material managed by its Life Sciences, Earth Sciences and...
Natural History Museum Collections Open Data Commons Attribution License

Butterflies and Moths of the World

There are currently an estimated 112,000 to 165,000 described species of butterflies and moths (Scoble, 1999) in nearly 24,000 available and objective replacement genus-group...
Natural History Museum; Brian Pitkin; Paul Jenkins Collections Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

A guide to lichens on twigs

Welcome to the guide to lichens on twigs. This site provides a user-friendly guide to over 60 lichens which can be found growing on twigs, as well as the data underlying the...
Natural History Museum; Field Studies Council; Pat Wolseley; Diccon Alexander et al. Citizen Science Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

First Fleet artwork collection

On 13 May 1787 eleven ships, now commonly referred to as the First Fleet, set sail from Portsmouth to establish a colony in New South Wales, Australia. They reached their...
Natural History Museum Collections License not specified

You can also access this registry using the API (see API guide).