page_title: Steinhardt Museum of Natural History
section_title: Collections and Research
hierarchical_section_title: Steinhardt Museum of Natural History / Collections and Research
caption_attribution_description: English: Protaetia cuprea, Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv University, Israel עברית: נחושתית הקוצים / נחושתנית הקוצים,מוזיאון הטבע על שם שטיינהרדט, אוניברסיטת תל אביב, ישראל
context_page_description: The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Israel National Center for Biodiversity Studies at Tel Aviv University, is a natural history museum in Israel, including both education and a research center. It is the largest and most active center in Israel of documentation and science, focusing on biodiversity research and its varied applications including nature conservation, environmental protection, and agriculture.
  The museum is set for the discovery, collections development and care, and scientific categorization of millions of specimens, documenting the flora and fauna in the area, as well as the history of humankind and its interactions with the environment. It provides access to its scientific treasures and accumulated knowledge to the public and the scientific and professional community.
  The Museum’s collections holding some 5.5 million items accumulated by many scientists from Tel Aviv University and other institutions, find their new home at the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History.
  The collections document the flora and fauna of Israel and the Middle East for thousands of years, as well as human development and the history of humankind.
context_section_description: The museum's collections are used for basic and applied research, for teaching and training, and for exhibitions to open to the public.
  The Zoological Museum (Department of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences), the National Herbarium of algae, fungi, and lichen (Department of Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, Faculty of Life Sciences), National Anthropological Collections (Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine), and the collections and laboratories of biological archeology (Institute of Archeology, Faculty Humanities) have joined forces to establish the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Israel National Center for Biodiversity Studies.
  The Museum maintains millions of specimens that record the fauna and flora of the region over the past century, as well as the development and history of humankind.  
  The collections are an extremely active National Research Infrastructure that is used by over 500 scientists,
  graduate students, and professionals from Israel and the world every year.
  The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities recognized the collections as national collections, a national museum of natural history in the making,
  while the National Council for Research & Development recognizes them as a National Research Infrastructure.
  The Ministry of Science & Technology recognizes the museum as a Knowledge center in agricultural and the environment.
caption: Beetle Protaetia cuprea ignicollis in the Insects display
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