The Project: "Documentation, digitalization and promotion of the Goulandris Natural History Museum collections" aims to the creation of an integrated system of preservation, management and promotion of specimens that belong to the Museum’s collections coming from the Greek nature. These collections are an offspring of long-lasting and systematic scientific research. They constitute an important token of the Green Flora and Fauna as well as, both a main source for basic scientific publications and a precious raw material for combined research on Biogeography and Taxonomy. In combination with the Photographic Archives of the Museum, they form a multidimensional dynamic core of thorough knowledge of the Greek nature. The results of the Museum’s research activity are presented in “Annales Musei Goulandris”, the Museum’s scientific journal which is exchanged with similar publications of 720 institutions worldwide.

Today,the GNHM Botanical Collection numbers more than 80,000 samples and is extremely significant for the classification study of flora of Greece and of the Balkan Peninsula. It represents a valuable national capital, the country’s databanks, the basis for any scientific research and application in the sectors of environmental policy, agriculture and forestry.

The samples of the collection are the material from which various results may be drawn on contemporary as well as past natural environment.

In addition, they provide an excellent tool for the development of publishing and educational activities.

The database of the Botanical collection includes the data of over 70.000 specimens. These specimens are higher plants (ferns, gymnosperms and angiosperms) from the Greek territory. The database also includes digital photos for 3500 of these specimens.

The collection consists of six hundred digitalized specimens of the ten thousand that are included in the data base of the Entomological Collection of the GNHM. These specimens are mainly Lepidoptera, Orthoptera, Diptera and Hymenoptera from Greece and have been collected during the 70’s and 80’s.

Τhe collection consists of 1400 digitalized specimens of the twenty thousand specimens of mollusks that have been included in the data base of the Museum. These are mainly shells from all over the world, as well as from the Greek seas. They have been collected mainly during the 70’s and 80’s and some of them earlier, such as those comprising the Moazzo collection.

The collection consists of digitalized specimens of Minerals that have been included in the data base of the Museum. It includes specimens from all over the world, as well as a lot of samples from Greece.

The collection consists of digitalized specimens of Fossils that have been included in the data base of the Museum. It includes specimens from all over the world, as well as a lot of samples from Greece.