Museum of Southwestern Biology - Division of Mammals

We loan specimens and provide biodiversity data to research and conservation projects across the globe. The Museum of Southwestern Biology (MSB) is a research and teaching facility in the Department of Biology at the University of New Mexico. The MSB houses collections of vertebrates, arthropods, plants, and genomic materials from the American Southwest and throughout the world. It is primarily a

research museum, although tours of the facility can be scheduled by appointment. The MSB’s Division of Mammals contains over 250,000 cataloged specimens dating from the late 1800s. Collections are worldwide in scope with particularly strong holdings from Western North America, Beringia, and Latin America. Specimens range from traditional skin and skull vouchers to "holistic vouchers" containing skin, skull, postcranial skeleton, karyotypes, parasites, and tissues. Frozen tissue samples are available for over 130,000 individual mammals and date back to the late 1970s. The Division of Mammals is among the most active research collections in the world and is a hub of research activity and training efforts at the University of New Mexico as witnessed through publications, dissertations, honors theses, grants, and annual growth. We are located on the main floor at 302 Yale Boulevard NE, CERIA Building 83, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM