HNHM is one of the outstanding institutions of the Hungarian cultural and scientific life. It is one of the largest natural history collections among the Central and Eastern European institutions, comprising more than 10.1 million items, among them 200,000 type specimens including 44,110 primary types. They hold the most important reference and historical collections for the entire Carpathian Basin, major portions of the Balkans, C, E and SE Asia. HNHM holds important 200-300 years old historical collections. The best represented areas are the Palaearctic, Oriental and Ethiopian biogeographic regions, and in case of soil animals also the tropical part of S America. The collections are well organised so the desired specimens or taxa can easily be retrieved. The Bird, Mammal, Anthropological, Mineralogical, and parts of the Invertebrate collections were recently moved into state-of-the-art storage areas, which provide an excellent environment for preservation and improved the access to the collections. The staff are leading experts in their fields thus represent rare or unique expertise in Europe, which is demonstrated by our involvement in establishing NATURA 2000 and National Biodiversity-monitoring System (NBmR), LIFE+ and LIFE IP programs, European fauna monographs, Balkan flora monographs, EU-COST Actions, etc. Consultation with phytosanitary and quarantine specialists is part of the HNHM core work. The library with more than 300,000 volumes is the nationally recognized centre for natural history and it holds one of the most important archives for natural historians in Central and Eastern Europe.

DNA & tissue samples in freezers (-80/-20

National facility for storing DNA and tissue samples from Denmark, the Faeroe Islands, Greenland and World Wide.

A comprehensive collection of DNA and tissue predominantly from Scandinavian fauna and flora, but also with substantial contributions from other parts of the world

Museo de Zoología at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador hosts the largest specimen collection and Genome bank in Ecuador. The genome bank has over 40,000 tissues (updated to August 2015) stored in -80 ultra freezers.

Collection of mostly tissues and some DNA from wild vertebrates, with special focus on Central European fauna.

The Museum of Southwestern Biology (MSB), Division of Genomic Resources (DGR) is a centralized repository at the University of New Mexico (UNM) for cryogenic biological materials submitted from MSB divisions at the University of New Mexico and from other individuals and institutions worldwide. The MSB DGR collection archives cryogenically preserved samples of animal tissues, whole organisms such as embryos and parasites, and purified DNA and RNA for the MSB divisions of Mammals, Birds, Fishes, Herpetology, and Parasitology. The MSB DGR collection contains over 500,000 cryogenic samples of more than 250,000 specimens and 3,000 species, representing Mammals (92%), Birds (4%), Reptiles (1%), Fishes (1%), and a growing collection of associated endo- and ectoparasites (2%). The collection spans more than 30 countries, with particularly strong holdings from the Southwestern United States, Beringia, and Latin America. Tissues and museum specimens can be located online bysearching the Arctos collections database at https://arctosdb.org for each of the MSB divisions.

The main criterion for inclusion of samples in the JBRJ DNA Bank is that they come from Brazilian native flora.

The Denver Botanic Gardens' Tissue and DNA Bank is primarily comprised of silica-gel dried plant tissue samples representing over 270 populations of more than 80 species as well as approximately 8,000 DNA samples. Plants represented are typically from the Southern Rocky Mountain Region and are often rare or infrequent species. The number of tissue and DNA samples of fungal species is expected to grow.

The Texas A&M Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections (formerly the Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collection) is maintained by staff and faculty of the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences and is one of several natural history collections within the Texas A&M system. The facility houses important collections of fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, parasites, and marine invertebrates that are available for use by the scientific community. Visit our collections pages to learn more about each division.

The University of Kansas Ichthyology frozen tissue collection continues to expand rapidly and has broad representation of both marine and freshwater fish diversity - 11,000 individual tissue samples from 2384 taxa (297 families and 1077 genera) and 38 countries (Australia, Belize, Ethiopia, Fiji, Nepal, Seychelles, South Africa and Tonga etc., as well as oceanic localities). The collections and the scope of research activities in the division continue to grow due to the ongoing activities of ichthyology staff and students. The collection is used by national and international researchers as well as by state and federal agencies. The Division of Ichthyology is designated as a Regional Center in the Midwest and Great Plains Regions (Collette & Lachner 1976, Copeia 1976: 625-642; Poss and Collette 1995, Copeia 1995: 48-70) and is among the top twenty ichthyological collections in the country. Almost 60% of the specimens in the collection are from the Great Plains Region. The collection is an important resource for anyone interested in the region’s fishes. The data concerning these faunas are not extensively duplicated by other ichthyological collections. The tissue collection comprises tissue samples originally collected in liquid nitrogen, DMSO and ethanol and stored in state-of-the-art liquid nitrogen dewars at -170°C. The tissues are made up mostly of muscle tissue but also includes, liver and other internal organs, fin clips and whole specimens. A large proportion of our collection has vouchers held either at KU or at other collections. The provenance of these vouchers is indicated in the database

This collection comprises specimen vouchers and tissue samples of most of the peruvian herpetofauna species: 436 species of amphibians and 337 species of reptiles, which comprises 74% of the amphibian and 69% of the reptile diversity, this according to the current diversity recorded for Peru. This is expresed in the more than 18,000 voucher specimens we store, and the more than 6,200 tissue samples, numbers that are growing constantly.

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The University of Alaska Museum of the North\'s Genomic Resources facility contains over 200,000 tissue samples from voucher specimens archived in the Mammalogy, Ornithology, Ichthyology and Entomology collections. Collection holdings can be searched on Arctos, a Collaborative Collection Management Solution. The geographic and taxonomic composition of the tissue collection is largely determined by the research interests of the museum curators and other local and regional biologists conducting research that involves specimen collection. It is the largest collection of such material from Alaskan species, with tissue samples dating back to 1936, though preserving fresh tissue did not become standard practice until the early 1990s. The storage facility consists of eight liquid nitrogen-cooled cryovats that maintain vapor-phase nitrogen at -170C (-274F).

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CBG Collections maintains a globally unique natural history collection of 3.3 million specimens. Every specimen is digitized, and the exact storage location of each specimen is tracked in a collection management information system for quick reference and retrieval. The databased information for every voucher is also archived in the Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD; www.boldsystems.org), permitting the permanent storage, validation and analysis of barcode sequence data and associated specimen metadata. Most (88.6%) of the specimens have been DNA barcoded, and a few representatives of every species have been digitally imaged.

The DNA Bank of the Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes (ADUAA) was implemented in 2017, it consists of an organized collection of tissue samples and genetic material.Until now the ADNUAA shelter mas de 2000 samples of of vascular plants and lichens of Mexico. Every accession is linked to a herbarium specimen (held at Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes Herbarium)

Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz) promotes health and social development, generates and disseminates scientific and technological knowledge, be an agent of citizenship. These are the concepts that guide the actions of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), under the Ministry of Health, the most prominent institution of science and technology in health in Latin America. Fiocruz has established its headquarters in the campus located in Manguinhos in the North of Rio de Janeiro state, where are the historic buildings of the former Federal Serum Therapy Institute (Instituto Soroterápico Federal). - as the Moorish Pavilion, the Pavilion of the Clock and Stable. Other six units are in the cities of Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Salvador, Recife, Manaus, Brasilia and Curitiba. Besides, there are new units that are being structured, as part of the national expansion project of Fiocruz, relating to policies for decentralization of research and training of human resources, promoted by the Federal Government. The new units of Fiocruz that are in development will be implemented in the states of Mato Grosso do Sul, Ceará, Rondônia and Piauí. Fiocruz has as one of its missions to preserve heritage buildings regarded to its history and its fields of activity. The campuses of the Foundation in Rio de Janeiro, in addition to harbor important architectural specimens of various periods, have high potential urban and landscape. The preservation of this heritage is responsibility of technical staff of the Department of Historical Heritage (DPH) of the Oswaldo Cruz House.

The New Zealand Arthropod collection (NZAC) is one of five nationally significant biological research collections held by the Crown Research Institute, Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research. The NZAC is the largest collection of New Zealand terrestrial invertebrates in the world and also contains significant holdings of material from Pacific island nations. The collection consists of over one million pinned specimens and approximately six million specimens stored in ethanol. There are over 2,500 primary type specimens.