Scientific collections
Drill core library
The NSW DPI main Core Library, at Londonderry in Sydney's west, has been developed into one of the most modern and comprehensive of its kind in the world. Find out more ...
Economic Mineral Collection
The Economic Mineral Collection contains about 24 000 specimens and includes examples from virtually every mineral deposit in New South Wales. Find out more ...
Palaeontological Collection
The Palaeontology Reference Collections are one of the largest public-owned fossil collections in the state, second only to those curated by the Australian Museum. Find out more ...
Insect and mite collection
The Agricultural Scientific Collections Unit (ASCU) maintains the largest and most comprehensive agricultural insect and mite collection in Australia. Find out more ...
Plant Pathology Herbarium
The Plant Pathology Herbarium has about 100,000 specimens of fungi, viruses, nematodes and bacteria of economic importance dating back to 1890. Find out more ...
Living Culture collections
There are two collections of living cultures included in the Plant Pathology Herbarium - the fungal culture collection (with 3500 isolates) and the bacterial collection (with 1400 isolates). Find out more ...
Otolith collection
The Ageing laboratory at Cronulla Fisheries Research Centre has an archived collection of over 70,000 sectioned otoliths on microscope slides of NSW estuarine and oceanic species. Find out more ...
Scientific illustrations
This is a stunning collection of hand-painted illustrations of insects and plant diseases, painted by two illustrators between 1914 and 1970. Find out more ...