The Georgia Museum of Natural History links collections, research, public
service, and education through programs designed for a diverse audience.
Natural history museums are repositories for collections of archaeological,
biological, geological, and paleontological materials.
The Georgia Museum of Natural History is a consortium consisting of
14 important natural history collections. These collections are supported
by six departments at the University of Georgia: Anthropology, Botany,
Entomology,
Geography, Geology, and Plant Pathology. Each collection is the largest
of its kind in Georgia.
The Allard Collection for Economic Geology represents a lifetime
of collecting by Dr. Gilles Allard in ore deposits and mines on every continent,
and contains over 20,000 specimens.