Originally conceived as a research project, Metafro - Infosys stands for Metadata African Organization - Information System. Any information tool dedicated to providing access to and dissemination of research information can be regarded as a CRIS. This includes records of People, Projects, Organizations, Results, Facilities and Equipment. Indeed, our objective is to reference all of these data types and data sources in a central database accessible on-line. Metafro - Infosys is also the Digital Information Centre (DICE) of the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA). As such, all our data set focuses on Central Africa (including Angola, Burundi and Rwanda). We also provide a Content Management System to help our researchers (and members) manage and publish their content on-line. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
The Special Collections Department holds collections of rare and old books and journals, old and modern maps and atlases, nursery catalogues, garden and landscape designs, aerial photographs, botanical and zoological illustrations, prints and photographical images. The main subjects are agriculture, horticulture, ornamental plants, botany, forestry, livestock farming, garden and landscape architecture, and land use. Topics are valuable collections of herbals, botanical and horticultural books from the 17th till the 19th century, land reclamation and soil maps, garden designs and tulipomania publications. ... [Information of the supplier]
The Museum für Naturkunde emerged from the union of three separate museums that had been established simultaneously with the founding of the Berlin University in 1810, including: the Anatomical-Zootomical Museum, the Mineralogical Museum (founded in 1814) and the Zoological Museum. From 1889 onwards the museum had to deal with the huge number of objects which were brought to Berlin from the German colonies and large expeditions. On February 3, 1945 the east wing of the museum was destroyed in a bombing raid nevertheless, the Museum für Naturkunde was the first museum in Berlin to be reopened on the 16th of September 1945. The collections still grew through valuable donations, as well as through objects collected on expeditions to Cuba, the People's Republic of Mongolia and the Soviet Union. The Museum für Naturkunde was reorganised after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the German Reunification. In 2005 a considerable change in the exhibitions started as about one third of the exhibition area is currently being modernized. 2006 the museum was again reorganised and by the end of 2006, the reconstruction of the bombed east wing began. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
In der Historischen Arbeitsstelle werden die wissenschaftshistorischen Sammlungen des Museums für Naturkunde aufbewahrt und erschlossen. Das Museum verfügt über eine umfangreiche Sammlung an historischen Schriften, Dokumenten, Nachlässen, Bildmaterial und biologischen Modellen. Diese Sammlung stellt ein einmaliges Quellenmaterial für die Geschichte der am Museum vertretenen Fachdisziplinen dar. ... [Information des Anbieters]
The Naturhistorische Museum - Natural History Museum - was set up again after the devastating fire of 1865 by the Admont Benedictine Father Gabriel Strobl in the years 1866 to 1910. In his scientific activity Father Gabriel Strobl built up a huge insect collection with roughly 252,000 specimens, with the collection of about 80,000 flies being one of the three most important in Europe. Through his own collecting, exchange, buying and in the form of gifts Father Gabriel Strobl acquired over 44 years the collection that can be admired in the partly newly planned Natural History Museum. A glass-case ribbon stretches for about 24 metres and shows in texts, pictures and exhibits the historical development of the Natural History Museum. The first side room is dedicated to Father Gabriel Strobl’s life work. His scientific and artistic work is described in a large table glass-case, while an exhibition of various insect groups can be seen on the walls. The second side room presents all 243 examples of the wax fruits made by Father Constantin Keller (1778-1864) in an impressive installation. ... [Information of the supplier, translated]
With over 35 million specimens the National Insect Collection at the Smithsonian Institution (Smithsonian) is one of the largest entomological collections in the world. Specimens and their associated data are used as the basis for original scientific research on the nature, inter-relationships, origin, and evolution of insects and their allies. The large holdings of medically and agriculturally important species make parts of the collection especially significant as sources of systematic research and identification of insect pests. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
The study of diversity in nature is traditionally the focus of research done by Naturhistorisches Museum Burgergemeinde Bern (NMBE) . For this goal the collections are the background, and to document the variety of forms was the purpose of scientific collecting since the 18th century. Systematics has been banned from the research and teaching programmes of most European universities. Thus the natural history museums are today the refuges for systematic knowledge. The link between NMBE and the University of Bern has a long tradition. With the founding of the local university in the 19th century professors of zoology and geology acted as curators for the museum collections. ... [Information of the supplier, translated]
Das Haus der Natur besteht seit dem Jahr 1924. Es versteht sich als Schau-Museum mit sowohl regionaler als auch internationaler Ausrichtung sowie als ein vielseitiges Natur-Kompetenzzentrum für Stadt und Land Salzburg. Als Schau-Museum will das Haus der Natur möglichst viele Besucher für die verschiedensten Facetten der Natur begeistern, ihnen ein Naturverständnis vermitteln und einen Weg in die Natur weisen. Dazu wird versucht, die verschiedensten Themenbereiche der Natur - einschließlich des Menschen möglichst lebendig und abwechslungsreich zu vermitteln. Bereits der Gründer des Hauses der Natur, Eduard Paul Tratz, war in dieser Hinsicht ein Wegbereiter einer modernen, lebendigen Museumsdidaktik. Seither wird versucht, diesen Weg konsequent fortzusetzen. Immer wieder werden neue Zugänge und Präsentationsmöglichkeiten gesucht und neue, aktuelle Inhalte aufbereitet - in Dauerausstellungen genauso wie in ständig wechselnden Sonderschauen. ... [Information des Anbieters]
Das Museum für Naturkunde in Leipzig bietet neben seiner Dauerausstellung mit den Schwerpunkten Biologie, Archäologie und Geologie Nordwestsachsens sowie Natur- und Umweltschutz auch wechselnde Sonderausstellungen. Unter den 20.000 botanischen und ca. 150.000 zoologischen Präparaten sind besonders die umfangreichen Belege der ersten deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition (1898), die für Mitteldeutschland einzigartige Eiersammlung und zahlreiche Exponate des weltweit bekannten Präparators H. H. ter Meer hervorzuheben. Regionale Bedeutung haben die Mollusken- und Insektensammlungen. ... [Information des Anbieters, verändert]
The Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe (BHL-Europe) is a 3 year project, involving 28 major natural history museums, botanical gardens and other cooperating institutions. The libraries of the European natural history museums and botanical gardens collectively hold the majority of the world’s published knowledge on the discovery and subsequent description of biological diversity. However, digital access to this knowledge is difficult. The objective of the BHL-Europe project is to make available Europe’s biodiversity information to everyone by improving the interoperability of European biodiversity digital libraries. The project will provide a multilingual access point for biodiversity content through a global portal (BHL) with specific biological functionality and to a wide European cultural audience through Europeana. ... [Information of the supplier]