Welcome to NatSCA, we are a UK based membership organisation and charity that represents natural science collections and the people that work with them.

  • Herbarium sheet
  • herbarium
  • caterpillars
  • fluid specimens
  • Skulls
  • Chameleon
  • Bird skin
  • fox
  • index cards
  • Entomology curation
  • barnacles
  • horns
  • fossil
  • Bismuth
  • Insect Drawer
  • Herbarium curation

Making a Difference: NatSCA Conference and AGM 2025

8th May 2025 to 9th May 2025

The Manchester Museum, The University of Manchester

NatSCA Conference & AGM 2025

The Annual Conference & AGM of the Natural Sciences Collections Association will be held on Thursday 8th and Friday 9th May 2025 at The University of Manchester, Manchester Museum.


Trials and Triumphs: sharing practice across the museum sector

On April 18th and 19th 2024, NatSCA hosted 'Trials and Triumphs: sharing practice across the museum sector', the 2024 NatSCA Conference at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

Natural History Museum to lead new national programme to digitise the UK’s natural science collections

27th Mar 2024

Funding of £155 million for a 10-year programme has been announced by the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology as part of the UKRI Infrastructure Fund.