{"id":241,"date":"2016-06-22T18:39:09","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T18:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/hhi\/?page_id=241"},"modified":"2016-06-22T18:39:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T18:39:09","slug":"natural-science-collections","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/hhi\/home\/selected-data\/natural-science-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural Science Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heritage Health Index data on the condition of natural science collections was recently presented at the joint annual meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections and Natural Science Collections Alliance in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The majority of the U.S.\u2019s 820 million zoological, botanical, geological, paleontological, and paleobotany specimens are held in what Heritage Preservation has classified as \u201cscience museums\u201d and \u201carchaeological repositories or scientific research collections,\u201d which include government agencies or universities that would not be classified as museums. Science museums include natural history museums, science technology museums, planetariums, and the non-living collections at nature centers, arboretums, botanical gardens, aquariums, and zoos. For a full explanation of how scientific collections were included in the survey, refer to Chapter 1, Heritage Health Index Development (pp. 8-9) and Chapter 2, Heritage Health Index Methodology (pp. 18-19).<\/p>\n<p>Institutions with Natural Science Specimens<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-242\" src=\"http:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/hhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/06\/science1.gif\" alt=\"science1\" width=\"363\" height=\"241\" \/><br \/>\nPercentage of Collections Accessible Through a Catalog (by type)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-243\" src=\"http:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/hhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/06\/science2.gif\" alt=\"science2\" width=\"360\" height=\"230\" \/><br \/>\nInstitutions Using No Environmental Controls for the Preservation of Collections<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-244\" src=\"http:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/hhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/06\/science3.gif\" alt=\"science3\" width=\"325\" height=\"230\" \/><br \/>\nInstitutions with No Emergency Plan with Staff Trained to Carry It Out (by type)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-245\" src=\"http:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/hhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/06\/science4.gif\" alt=\"science4\" width=\"324\" height=\"230\" \/><br \/>\nStaffing for Conservation\/Preservation (by type)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-246\" src=\"http:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/hhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/06\/science5.gif\" alt=\"science5\" width=\"383\" height=\"286\" \/><br \/>\nInstitutions with a Written, Long-Range Plan for the Care of the Collection (by type)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-247\" src=\"http:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/hhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/06\/science6.gif\" alt=\"science6\" width=\"358\" height=\"285\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heritage Health Index data on the condition of natural science collections was recently presented at the joint annual meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections and Natural Science Collections Alliance in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The majority of the U.S.\u2019s 820 million zoological, botanical, geological, paleontological, and paleobotany specimens are held in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/hhi\/home\/selected-data\/natural-science-collections\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Natural Science Collections&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"parent":20,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-241","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/hhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/hhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/hhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/hhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/hhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/hhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/hhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/hhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}