Gloucester City Museum and Art Gallery
Museum Sowing the Seeds of Success
Working with the herbaria@home project, which is supported by the Botanical Society of the British Isles, we will be digitising an estimated 16,000 sheets of pressed plants. These will then go on the herbaria@home website to be catalogued by volunteers at home.
Botanical collections in museums contain a wealth of biodiversity data, which at present is largely inaccessible. The images and data from this project will be made freely available on the internet and may be used by scientists who are looking at things such as climate change and extinction rates of different plant species. It also means that this rare and fragile collection of the definitive Flora of Gloucestershire will be available for the public to see on-line for the very first time.
Gloucester Museums Service is an International Year of Biodiversity partner.
