Museums play a key roll in the research activities of most ancient DNA research labs. Most people who attend museums are unaware that what they see on display is only a tiny fraction of the material in the museum collection. Maintaining these collections for scientific research is both costly and time consuming. Below is a list of links to museums/curators that our lab is indebted to for assistance with current or past research projects:
Australia:
Western Australian Museum (Dr Ric How)
New Zealand:
Te Papa (Trevor Worthy, Alan Tennyson)
Canterbury Museum (Dr Paul Scofield)
Otago Museum (Sue Heath)
Auckland Museum (Dr Brian Gill)
United Kingdom:
Natural History Muesum (Dr Sandra Chapman)
Natural History Museum, Bird collections, Tring (Dr Robert Prys-Jones, Dr Jo Cooper and Mark Adams).
Oxford Natural History Museum (Malgosia Nowak-Kemp)