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

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

Digitisation and data management challenges in small collections

14th Mar 2019 to 15th Mar 2019

National Museum of Natural History - Sofia

TIGHT DEADLINE - 10th February to apply!!

The Training School will target a basic but important part of the digitisation procedure of biological and geological collections and will include the following topics:

Care and Conservation of Insect Collections

(c)OUMNH
22nd Mar 2019

Oxford University Museum of Natural History

This one day course will cover all you need to know about looking after entomology collections, from modern collections management techniques and to practical remedial conservation skills. Starting with the basics, the morning session will focus on collections assessment and storage.

NatSCA Conference & AGM 2019

1st May 2019 to 3rd May 2019

National Museum of Ireland, Dublin – Collins Barracks site

We are now calling for papers for the NatSCA Conference & AGM 2019 which will be held between the 1st and 3rd May 2019 at the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin. The theme of NatSCA 2019 is "Dead Interesting: Secrets of Collections Success" and we are now inviting submissions.