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

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

Skeleton Preparation Workshop

(c) Leeds Museums and Galleries
4th Jul 2018

Historic England, Fort Cumberland, Portsmouth

A day-long course in animal skeleton preparation. Learn how to skin, separate the limbs from the body and head, deflesh and prepare small mammal and bird carcasses.

Committee Nominations

Nominations are now open for election to the NatSCA committee

Nominations should be proposed and seconded by NatSCA members using the form below and should be sent to Roberto Portela Miguez, Secretary of NatSCA, at the address on the form at least 4 weeks before the AGM.

Nomination form (opens Word file).

Caring for Natural Science Collections: A one day conference exploring advances in conservation

(c) Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
17th Oct 2018

Oxford University Museum of Natural History

NatSCA is hosting a one-day conference dedicated to conservation and its role in advancing the care of specimens, objects and archives that form our natural science collections. Often considered to be a very specific subject area, in reality this field is highly diverse.