Science - The Bruce Museum

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.

Birds Eggs Fish Fossils Insects and other Arthropods Mammals Marine Species Minerals and Rocks On View Skeletons

Barred Owl Strix varia

Bruce Museum Collection 2015.08

Common Loon, Gavia immer

Bruce Museum Collection 2015.06

Little Auk, Alle alle

Bruce Museum Collection 2015.07

Heath Hen Tympanuchus cupido cupido

Bruce Museum Collection 95.20 Gift of William A. O. Gross

Australian Little Penguin, Eudyptula minor

Bruce Museum Collection TBD

Adélie Penguin, Pygoscelis adelie

Bruce Museum Collection TBD Gift of SeaWorld

Western Capercaille Tetrao urogallus Meråker

Norway, Bruce Museum Collection 2011.02 Gift of the Harold Rogers

Violet-backed Starling, Cinnyricinclus leucogaste

British Columbia, Canada, Bruce Museum Collection 2006.37.10 Gift of the Boston Children’s Museum

Macaroni Penguin Eudyptes chyrsolophus

Captive Bird, Bruce Museum Collection 2017.12.3 Gift of SeaWorld

Willow Ptarmigan, Lagopus lagopus

Alaska, Bruce Museum Collection 4993