National Science Foundation funds new cabinetry and a curatorial assistant
Great success for the DMNS Entomology Program! We received over
$ 360.000 from NSF to support "Uncrowding, Rehousing, and
Digitization of the Insect Collection at the Denver Museum of
Nature & Science". This grant will provide for a curatorial
assistant for three years (David Bettman) and for 138 new cabinets
(made in U.S.A.!), helping to preserve and making accessible the
almost 800,000 specimens in our collection. Specimen data will be
made available through a newly developed web interface of our
currently implemented database KEEmu. In 2014, all collections of
the Denver Museum of Nature & Science will move into a new collections preservation facility which is
currently under construction. The Entomology Collection will move
directly into new cabinets. A new chapter in the over 100 year old
history of our collection has begun.
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