We connect the Museum's world-leading experts with innovative organisations, from small or medium enterprises to governments and multinational businesses looking to make a change.
Our business and academic consultancy harnesses the expertise of our top specialists, vast collections and world-class laboratories.
At the Museum we deliver a range of consultancy services to help your project reach its full potential, with the planet in mind.
Contact us
NHM Consulting
The Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road
London SW7 5BD
Environmental assessment
We offer worldwide services for environmental, ecological and biodiversity assessments, as well as monitoring, conservation advice, and expert witnessing.
Mining consulting
The Museum is a recognised centre of excellence in mineral deposit research, with over twenty-five years’ experience, and in-house analytical facilities.
Analytical imaging and DNA sequencing
Our purpose-built laboratories can prepare, analyse and interpret a broad spectrum of biological, mineralogical and material specimens.
Molecular diagnostics
Find out more about how the Museum's experts can support projects from environmental monitoring to disease identification.
Collections management consulting
The Museum is a world-leader in the curation of large and diverse collections – our own catalogue now stands at over 80 million specimens collected over centuries.
Identification and advisory service
Our researchers and curators can offer identifications and expert advice on various fields including entomology, zoology, mineralogy and molecular biology.
Space sciences
Our world-renowned Mineral and Planetary Science division is supported by one of the finest meteorite collections featuring specimens from the Moon and Mars.
Biodiversity Intactness Index
We offer a wide range of services for businesses that want to use our data to estimate the amount of a region’s natural biodiversity that remains.
Our latest science news
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Science newsThe slender-billed curlew is declared extinct
This is the first mainland European bird declared extinct in 500 years.
18 November 2024 -
Science newsAncient humans feasted on a giant elephant in India over 300,000 years ago
A breakthrough fossil discovery is changing what we know about some of the largest mammals to ever walk the Earth.
15 November 2024 -
Science newsClimate change threatens nearly half of all corals with extinction
Rising temperatures are pushing many species to the brink, alongside disease, pollution and unsustainable fishing.
13 November 2024 -
Science news‘One of a kind’ fossil from the age of dinosaurs reveals roots of bird intelligence
A remarkable fossil could transform our understanding of how the intelligence of modern birds evolved.
13 November 2024
Get in touch with the team
Need our expertise for your next project? Email the team at nhmconsulting@nhm.ac.uk to find out more about consultancy at the Museum.