Our Invertebrate collections date from the mid-1800s and include samples of many different groups of animals.

Our Invertebrate collections contain the largest number of specimens in the museum. They can be broadly divided into:

Insects (Entomology)
Marine Invertebrates (including sponges, jellyfish, shrimps, crabs, worms, bivalves, gastropods, octopuses, and sea urchins).

In addition there are discrete collections of other terrestrial forms (e.g. spiders and millipedes) and freshwater invertebrates (e.g. snails). The collections are separated into wet preserved specimens, dried specimens and models, and microscope slides.