New Addition at the NSRL - Grand Opening Reception April 18

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For over a year the space that was available for museum cases, etc. was totally full. We had reached a stage where it was impossible to curate specimens, add additional specimens to the collections, or to do the things necessary for proper curation. The solution to this problem was the addition of the new wing that was funded by a grant from the Ben E. Keith Foundation. That new wing almost triples the mount of space available for collections. The new wing is essentially finished and we anticipate taking possession within the next 30 or 60 days. (Written on 28 September 2005)

The new addition not only will permit us to more than double our holdings of mammals, (current holdings are over 100,000 specimens) but part of the contract to build the new wing included a tripling of the space available for the frozen tissue collection. Further, there are continual changes in how tissues are collected and stored. In addition to the cryopreserved collection, samples in lysis buffer can be stored at room temperature. We now have named our tissues samples collection as the Genetic Resources Collection which more accurately reflects the contents of and complexity of the collection.

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