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 Object of the Month: Botany on the Frontier
Find out about the stars of our collections. Each month we spotlight a rarely seen Museum treasure, such as this specimen of bush sunflower collected by botanist Alice Eastwood in 1886.
The University of Colorado Herbarium contains the most comprehensive collection of Colorado plants in the world. Nearly 500,000 specimens are currently housed at the facility. Learn more...
Want to see previous Objects of the Month? Check out our archive.
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Research and Collections
The University of Colorado Museum of Natural History houses the largest natural history collection in the Rocky Mountains. Currently, more than four million objects are categorized into five disciplines: Anthropology, Botany, Entomology, Paleobiology/Geology and Zoology. The collections include the world's oldest documented Navajo textile, the Aiken bird collection, and Colorado's largest collection of bees.
Faculty and staff at the Museum conduct world-class research, using the extensive collections. Some of the current research at the Museum includes algal ecology of lakes and streams, the first colonization of the Americas, and coprolites and dinosaur diets.
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