Natural History Museum
Budget
€143,425,748
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
1
0.25 FTE
EU Grants
€862,310
Mission & Goals
Understanding of the natural world, including human impacts, is essential for our future. The Natural History Museum (NHM) develops and shares its global collection of more than 80 million items for collaborative scientific research and for public engagement and involvement. Our focus is the diversity and evolution of life on Earth, and the geological history and resources of the planet and the wider Solar System. The global challenges of biodiversity loss, climate change, resource security, parasitic disease and invasive species are areas where the NHM collaborates to provide solutions and involve the public as advocates for their future through galleries, programmes, education and citizen science. As a large scientific infrastructure, the NHM gives global access to collections and open databases: increasingly, we serve the needs of molecular science and advanced techniques, using NHM laboratories for chemical analysis and sequencing, and cutting-edge imaging facilities.
EU Legislative Interests
DG RTD Horizon Europe Biodiversity strategy for 2030 Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials Initiative
Communication Activities
none
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
GBIF http://www.gbif.org/ National Biodiversity Network https://nbn.org.uk/ TDWG http://www.tdwg.org/ GGBN http://www.ggbn.org/ggbn_portal/ CETAF http://cetaf.org/ IUCN https://www.iucn.org/ Museums Association https://www.museumsassociation.org/home ECSITE http://www.ecsite.eu/ ICOM http://icom.museum/ International Barcode of Life Consortium http://ibol.org DiSSCo Distributed System of Scientific Collections http://www.dissco.eu IROC https://ahrc-iroc.org/
Organisation Members
None
Additional Information
We are an Arm's Length Body (a Public Body established by statute) under a UK Government Department, The Department for Culture Media and Sport. The amounts received for the closed financial year 2024-25 represents amounts in Pounds Sterling translated at the yearly average exchange rate for the Year Ended 31 March 2025 of 1.1971 per HMRC. These represent income recognised in the accounts rather than cash received. For the amounts received so far in the current financial year, this is for the 5 months to 31 August 2025, and is again income recognised rather than cash received. This has been translated at the average exchange rate of 1.1683
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.