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 newsBig-eyed conch snails use vision to jump away from predators
Conch snails make death-defying leaps to evade deadly predators.
16 January 2025 -
Science newsDiCaprio’s snake and Sauron’s piranha: Natural History Museum describes 190 new species in 2024
Over the last 12 months our scientists have been describing a dizzying array of new species.
20 December 2024 -
Science newsDebris from ancient explosive volcanoes found at Mars rover landing site
A previously unknown rock type at the new Mars rover landing site is revealing more about the red planet.
13 December 2024 -
Science newsTyrannosaur teeth discovered in southern England reveal Cretaceous dinosaur ecosystem
Spinosaurs, tyrannosaurs and relatives of Velociraptor once stalked England’s south coast.
10 December 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.