The site is strikingly presented but, being image-rich, some pages can be slow to load. This site provides scientific information from the Museum's collections and research activities, organised by research division. Some divisions provide access to searchable collection databases, while others limit their information to staff, publications, and descriptions of projects and research. The Museum provides an alternative Web site for a more general audience, reached through a link from this home page. The site includes a virtual tour and many illustrations.
All principal pages are available in English or French via alternative links.
This page gives access to the information on each of the specialist departments at the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University in the United States. Each department provides a summary description, a brief history of its collections and free access to collections databases. These include data such as species name, number of specimens held, date of collection and name of collector. This is an entry page to the many collections databases of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. Database access is offered to type specimen and general holdings, illustrations and images, and summary descriptions.