Museum of Southwestern Biology

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The Museum of Southwestern Biology (MSB) is a research and teaching museum in the University of New Mexico’s Department of Biology. Founded in 1938, it holds more than 4 million specimens, including vascular plants, invertebrates, and vertebrates from the Americas and beyond. It has one of the western hemisphere’s largest frozen-tissue collections, with more than 500,000 samples. MSB supports education and research and has contributed to studying zoonotic pathogens such as orthohantavirus and Lassa mammarenavirus. The museum is open to visitors by appointment and during its annual open-collections event. Its collections cover many groups, including amphibians and reptiles, birds, fishes, mammals, arthropods, herbarium specimens, and genomic resources.