Natural History Museum

Insect Collection

Curator: Dr. Stylianos Chatzimanolis

Please visit Ecdysis Portal for information regarding the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Insect Collection.

Mammal Collection

Curator: Dr. Timothy Gaudin

The recent mammal collection includes nearly 2000 specimens (making it the second largest such collection in Tennessee). It is comprised largely of specimens collected in southeast Tennessee, and, to a lesser extent, western North Carolina. The collection is also an official repository for small collections from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Chattanooga-Chickamauga National Military Park. Despite its small size, it encompasses skulls, or casts of skulls, from all but 3 of the 27 or so modern orders of mammals. It is accompanied by a small collection of fossil vertebrates, most of which are Holocene/Pleistocene specimens collected from local cave sites, or casts of fossil xenarthrans and pangolins.