The American Museum of Natural History houses the world's largest collection of spiders, with well over a million specimens and over 4,000 primary types. The collection is used extensively by most of the world's arachnologists. The geographic scope is worldwide, with special strengths in New World areas.

Curator-in-Charge: Dr. Norman Platnick

Collections Assistants: Louis Sorkin, Lily Berniker

World Spider Catalog