Focus: Fossil Plants - Facilities

Collections Facility

The Paleobotany Collections are housed in a 7,130 sq. ft. space within the 182,000 sq. ft. Collections Resource Center (CRC) and are equipped with compactorized storage comprising a total of 15,700 drawer spaces (approximately 48,000 sq. ft. of storage), plus approximately 180 sq. ft. of oversize shelving and four slide cabinets capable of housing 192,000 slides. SEM stubs are housed separately near the Museum’s Scanning Electron Microscopy facility, while type figured and referred specimens are separated from the main Collection and are housed by publication.