Natural History Museum
The BGE Department has a Natural History Museum that houses multiple flora and fauna species. If the collection is available online, a link is provided. Reach out the faculty curator with specific questions.
- Amphibian and Reptile Collection: curated by Dr. Thomas Wilson
- Fungarium: curated by Dr. Hill Craddock
- Herbarium: curated by Dr. Joey Shaw
- Ichthyology Collection: curated by Dr. Rich Walker
- Insect Collection: curated by Dr. Stylianos Chatzimanolis
- Mammalogy and Fossil Collection: curated by 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.
- Ornithology Collection: curated by Dr. David Aborn