Mississippi Museum of Natural Science

Description

The Mississippi Museum of Natural Science biological collections originated in 1935, and currently consist of more than 1,000,000 specimens, representing the largest single reference for Mississippi vertebrate animals, freshwater mussels, and fossil vertebrates and invertebrates in existence. The collections also contain plant specimens, including rare plants and plants collected from bog, prairie, and savanna habitats of Mississippi.

Contacts

ADMINISTRATIVE_POINT_OF_CONTACT
Matt Roberts
position: Curator of Fishes
Telephone: +01 601 576 6062
email: matt.roberts@mmns.state.ms.us

TECHNICAL_POINT_OF_CONTACT
David Bloom
position: VertNet Programmer
VertNet
Telephone: +01 785 813-1496
email: dbloom@vertnet.org

TECHNICAL_POINT_OF_CONTACT
John Wieczorek
position: Information architect
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley
Telephone: +01 510 642 5409
email: tuco@berkeley.edu

TECHNICAL_POINT_OF_CONTACT
David Bloom
position: Vertnet Coordinator
VertNet
Telephone: +01 510 643 1620
email: dbloom@vernet.org

Mississippi Museum of Natural Science
2148 Riverside Drive
Jackson
MS/39202
US