Our mission is to investigate and promote the understanding of the history of life and the diversity of the Earth's biota through research and education.
The University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) is primarily a research museum. Its collections are only open to the public on Cal Day. However, visitors can see the free-sta
To collect, preserve, research, and interpret the global record of material culture, so as to promote the understanding of the history and diversity of human cultures.
The Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, was founded in 1901 by Phoebe Apperson Hearst who envisioned the Museum as the cultural cornerstone of one of the world’s
The Essig Museum of Entomology on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley houses an active research collection of over 5,000,000 terrestrial arthropods. The Essig Museum is now
