The Natural History Museum Basel is one of the most renowned platforms for research and knowledge transfer. The extensive collections form a base for the description of species.
The Natural History Museum Basel not-for-profit, state-run institution and a department of the canton Basel-Stadt. It is part of the cultural division which belongs to the presidential department.
The outstanding natuaral history objects. from the fields of zoology, entomology, mineralogy, anthropology, osteology and palaeontology have been looked after and researched for over 300 years.