Natural History Museum Aarhus Vertebrate Collection
Citation
Natural History Museum Aarhus (2025). Natural History Museum Aarhus Vertebrate Collection. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/ap3rbd accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-10-13.Description
The mammal collections include taxidermy, skin- and skeleton specimens as well as tissue samples from ca 20,000 specimens. The majority of the specimen are collected in Denmark, but some are from the museum’s East African expeditions in the 1940s and 50s.The ornithological collections include taxidermy, skin and skeleton specimen as well as eggs and nests of mainly Danish and European species as well as a few exotic species. The collection contains ca 20,000 specimens. In addition to the physical specimens, the ornithology collection contains a unique Bio Acoustics collection of ca 16,000 recordings of bird songs and calls recorded by Poul Bondesen and Poul Hansen from 1950 to 2000.Taxonomic Coverages
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Kent Olsencurator
position: Curator
Natural History Museum Aarhus
Telephone: +45 40 27 20 30
email: kent@molslab.dk
homepage: https://www.naturhistoriskmuseum.dk/natural-history-museum-aarhus/about/employees/videnskabelige-medarbejdere/kent-olsen
Hans Viborg Kristensen
metadata author
position: Collections manager
Natural History Museum Aarhus
Telephone: +45 40 27 13 73
email: hans@nathist.dk
homepage: https://www.naturhistoriskmuseum.dk/om-museet/medarbejdere/videnskab/hans-viborg-kristensen
Fedor Alexander Steeman
distributor
position: Data Coordinator
Natural History Museum of Denmark
Universitetsparken 15
Copenhagen
2100
Capital Region of Denmark
DK
Telephone: +45 22369539
email: fedor.steeman@snm.ku.dk
homepage: https://snm.ku.dk/english/
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