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

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

Changing the World: Environmental Breakdown, Decolonisation and Natural Science Collections - 2020 Conference & AGM

14th May 2020 to 15th May 2020

National Museum Wales, Cardiff

We are pleased to announce that The Natural Science Collections Association will be holding #NatSCA2020, our next annual conference & AGM, on Thursday 14th and Friday 15th May 2020.

Growing Networks: new botanical workshops

(c) The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
7th Jun 2020 to 15th Jun 2020

Cambridge, London and Edinburgh

The Fitzwilliam Museum invites applications from early- to mid-career curators of botanical works of art on paper to participate in a series of workshops and collections visits in Cambridge, London and Edinburgh.

An introduction to mobilising your collection’s biodiversity data

11th Nov 2019

M Shed, Bristol

This workshop, organised by NatSCA, Bristol Culture and NHM London, will take you through the steps required to digitise and share specimen occurrence data (‘what, where, when, who’) with the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).