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Bakker, F. T.Wageningen University and Research,Wageningen University
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The Global Museum: natural history collections and the future of evolutionary science and public education
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LIBRIS-ID:oai:gup.ub.gu.se/290246
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8225DOI
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https://research.chalmers.se/publication/515416URI
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https://research.chalmers.se/publication/517142URI
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https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/5d146241-dbe0-4ec6-a6d4-4bfa45b0dedfURI
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Natural history museums are unique spaces for interdisciplinary research and educational innovation. Through extensive exhibits and public programming and by hosting rich communities of amateurs, students, and researchers at all stages of their careers, they can provide a place-based window to focus on integration of science and discovery, as well as a locus for community engagement. At the same time, like a synthesis radio telescope, when joined together through emerging digital resources, the global community of museums (the 'Global Museum') is more than the sum of its parts, allowing insights and answers to diverse biological, environmental, and societal questions at the global scale, across eons of time, and spanning vast diversity across the Tree of Life. We argue that, whereas natural history collections and museums began with a focus on describing the diversity and peculiarities of species on Earth, they are now increasingly leveraged in new ways that significantly expand their impact and relevance. These new directions include the possibility to ask new, often interdisciplinary questions in basic and applied science, such as in biomimetic design, and by contributing to solutions to climate change, global health and food security challenges. As institutions, they have long been incubators for cutting-edge research in biology while simultaneously providing core infrastructure for research on present and future societal needs. Here we explore how the intersection between pressing issues in environmental and human health and rapid technological innovation have reinforced the relevance of museum collections. We do this by providing examples as food for thought for both the broader academic community and museum scientists on the evolving role of museums. We also identify challenges to the realization of the full potential of natural history collections and the Global Museum to science and society and discuss the critical need to grow these collections. We then focus on mapping and modelling of museum data (including place-based approaches and discovery), and explore the main projects, platforms and databases enabling this growth. Finally, we aim to improve relevant protocols for the long-term storage of specimens and tissues, ensuring proper connection with tomorrow's technologies and hence further increasing the relevance of natural history museums.
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Antonelli, A.Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew,University of New Mexico,Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew,University of Texas at Austin
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Clarke, J.The University of Texas at Austin, USA
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Cook, J. A.
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Edwards, Scott,1963University of Gothenburg,Chalmers University of Technology,Harvard University(Swepub:cth)scotte
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Ericson, Per G PNaturhistoriska riksmuseet,Swedish Museum of Natural History,Enheten för bioinformatik och genetik(Swepub:nrm)pererics
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Faurby, Sören,1981Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för biologi och miljövetenskap,Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences,University of Gothenburg(Swepub:gu)xfauso
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Ferrand, N.Universidade do Porto,University of Porto
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Gelang, M.University of Gothenburg,Gothenburg Natural History Museum
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Gillespie, R. G.University of California at Berkeley,University of California, Berkeley
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Irestedt, MartinSwedish Museum of Natural History(Swepub:nrm)martires
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Lundin, KennetGothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för biologi och miljövetenskap,Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences,University of Gothenburg,Gothenburg Natural History Museum
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Larsson, Ellen,1961Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för biologi och miljövetenskap,Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences,University of Gothenburg(Swepub:gu)xlaell
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Matos-Maraví, PávelCzech Academy of Sciences,Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic(Swepub:gu)xmatpa
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Muller, J.Museum für Naturkunde
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von Proschwitz, Ted,1957Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för biologi och miljövetenskap,Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences,University of Gothenburg,Gothenburg Natural History Museum
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Roderick, G. K.University of California at Berkeley,University of California, Berkeley
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Schliep, Alexander,1967Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för data- och informationsteknik, datavetenskap (GU),Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Computing Science (GU),University of Gothenburg(Swepub:gu)xscale
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Wahlberg, NiklasLund University,Lunds universitet,Biologiska museet,Biologiska institutionen,Naturvetenskapliga fakulteten,BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate,Centrum för miljö- och klimatvetenskap (CEC),Biological Museum,Department of Biology,Faculty of Science,Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC)(Swepub:lu)biol-nlw
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Wiedenhoeft, JohnGothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för data- och informationsteknik, datavetenskap (GU),Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Computing Science (GU),University of Gothenburg
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Kallersjo, M.Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för biologi och miljövetenskap,Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences,Göteborgs botaniska trädgård,Gothenburg Botanical Garden,University of Gothenburg
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Wageningen University and ResearchWageningen University
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