
Natural history museums are changing, both because of their own internal development and in response to changes in context. Historically, the aim of collecting from nature was to develop encyclopedic assemblages to satisfy human curiosity and build a basis for taxonomic information...

In the changing landscape natural history museums find themselves The Future of Natural History Museums develops a cohesive discourse that balances the disparate issues that these institutions will face over the next twenty to fifty years. Thinkers from around the world,...