Science collection
The science collection focuses on natural history and includes minerals and fossils, bird and mammal mounts, butterflies and other invertebrates, reptiles, fish, and skeletons. It is the best collection of this type in the area between New York City and New Haven. The specimens represent worldwide localities and the collection grows through field collecting, donations, bequests, exchanges and purchases.
Adélie Penguin, Pygoscelis adelie
Adélie Penguin, Pygoscelis adelie
Bruce Museum Collection TBD Gift of SeaWorld
Australian Little Penguin, Eudyptula minor
Australian Little Penguin, Eudyptula minor
Bruce Museum Collection TBD
Barite
Guangdong, China Bruce Museum Collection 2019.4.35 Gift of Robert R. Wiener
Barred Owl Strix varia
Bruce Museum Collection 2015.08
Black Bear, Ursus americanus
British Columbia, Canada, Bruce Museum Collection 2010.06 Gift of the Koontz family
Chalcopyrite with Quartz
Bruce Museum Collection 2019.4.23 Gift of Robert R. Wiener
Common Loon, Gavia immer
Bruce Museum Collection 2015.06
Crowned Lemur, Eulemur coronatus
Bruce Museum Collection 2015.01A
Dinosaur skull (cast) Majungasaurus crenatissimus
Bruce Museum Collection 2014.06
Emperor Penguin Egg, Aptenodytes forster
Emperor Penguin Egg, Aptenodytes forster
Bruce Museum Collection 2018.17.07
Fossil Stingray Asterotrygon maloneyi
Bruce Museum Collection 84.30.02
Fossil Trackway of Batrachopus
Bruce Museum Collection 2020.10.03
Grey Wolf, Canis lupus Alaska
USA Bruce Museum Collection 93.14
Gypsum “Ram’s Horn”
Gypsum “Ram’s Horn”
Chihuahua, Mexico Bruce Museum Collection 2019.4.48 Gift of Robert R. Wiener
Heath Hen Tympanuchus cupido cupido
Bruce Museum Collection 95.20 Gift of William A. O. Gross
Layered Gypsum
Layered Gypsum
Chinkapook Lake, Australia Bruce Museum Collection 2019.4.62 Gift of Robert R. Wiener
Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth skeleton
Choloepus didactylus Bruce Museum Collection 70.09.01
Little Auk, Alle alle
Bruce Museum Collection 2015.07
Macaroni Penguin Eudyptes chyrsolophus
Macaroni Penguin Eudyptes chyrsolophus
Captive Bird, Bruce Museum Collection 2017.12.3 Gift of SeaWorld
Malachite
Malachite
Bruce Museum Collection 2019.4.49 Gift of Robert R. Wiener
Mud Wasp Nest, Trigonopsis howesi
Guyana in 1916 by early Bruce Museum Curator Paul Griswold Howes.
Ostrich Skeleton, Struthio camelus
Bruce Museum Collection 20234
Platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus
Tasmania, Australia, Bruce Museum Collection, Gift of Stephen Horn
Porcupinefish, Diodon hystrix
Bruce Museum Collection FIC 2004.06
Pronghorn, Antilocapra americana
Bruce Museum Collection 2006.38.07
Pyrite on Calcite,
Chenzhou, China Bruce Museum Collection 2019.4.26 Gift of Robert R. Wiener
Quartz and Hematite
Lechang Mine, Guandong Province, China, Bruce Museum Collection 2019.01.04
Ring-tailed Lemur, Lemur catta
Bruce Museum Collection 2015.02A
Selenite
Mexico Bruce Museum Collection 2019.4.52 Gift of Robert R. Wiener
Semionotid Fish Fossil
Bruce Museum Collection
Snowshoe Hare, Lepus americanus
Massachusetts, USA Bruce Museum Collection 4993
Stibnite
Wuning Mine, Jiangxi Province, China Bruce Museum Collection 2019.01.32
Stilbite and Apophyllite on Quartz
Bruce Museum Collection
Triton’s Trumpet, Charonia tritonis
Bruce Museum Collection FIC 2010.10
Violet-backed Starling, Cinnyricinclus leucogaste
British Columbia, Canada, Bruce Museum Collection 2006.37.10 Gift of the Boston Children’s Museum
Western Capercaille Tetrao urogallus Meråker
Norway, Bruce Museum Collection 2011.02 Gift of the Harold Rogers
Willow Ptarmigan, Lagopus lagopus
Alaska, Bruce Museum Collection 4993
