We have around 1,500 mounted British birds and mammals, 2,500 study skins, over 3,500 egg clutches and small numbers of fish and osteology specimens.
The collection has mainly come from Victorian naturalists as well as some more recent collectors, and represents a wide selection of British mammals...
The museum holds over 59,000 specimens in its herbarium, collected from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. It includes the extensive Cumbrian collection acquired from the University of Lancaster.
The collections consist mainly of study material of flowering plants, ferns, mosses, and seaweeds,...
Our geology collection includes minerals (minerology), fossils (palaeontology) and rocks (petrology).
Cumbria is one of the richest mining areas in Britain, and so we hold a significant minerals collection, including specimens from the world-renowned Caldbeck Fells. Among our 6,000 fossils, there...
Insect Collections
The Entomology collections contain some 100,000 specimens, covering most British insect Orders. The bulk of this derives from the collections of three local amateur entomologists - G.B. Routledge (1864-1934), J. Murray (1872-1942) and F.H. Day (1875-1963). All three collected a...
Wildlife Records
Tullie House Museum established what may be the first ever local biological records centre in 1902 at the instigation of the curator at the time - Linnaeus Eden Hope - and Carlisle Natural History Society. Today the Museum hosts Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre (CBDC), which holds...
Go to Carlisle Natural History Society website http://www.carlislenats.org.uk
Carlisle Natural History Society, established in 1893, has been studying the wildlife of Cumbria for over 100 years.
The society aims to encourage the study, enjoyment and knowledge of the animals and plants of Cumbria...
