Collections Operations

Collections Operations spearheads and coordinates initiatives and directives among the research collections. These activities include addressing museum compliance and regulation issues, managing museum-wide procedures and protocols, administering the central database, coordinating construction projects for collection renovations and equipment upgrades, overseeing common-use facilities, and representing the collections for plans and initiatives outside the MCZ.

MCZ specimen cabinets
MCZ specimen cabinets

Ongoing projects and support include specimen data capture, collection reorganizations, specimen housing improvements, personnel support, facilitation of best-practice standards, web development and environmental monitoring.