Virtual Resources
We’ve assembled the following list of resources that will allow American Museum of Natural History enthusiasts and researchers alike to lead virtual expeditions into our history, collections and research. The Gottesman Research Library's staff are constantly enriching our online holdings with additional digitized content, so check back often for new resources.
Discover digital collections from the Gottesman Research Library and the Museum Archives, including: photographs, manuscripts, films, rare book plates, and more.
Search Scientific Publications, Annual Reports, lectures, field books, supplemental data, and more.
The American Museum of Natural History Library has developed standardized vocabularies – we call them authorities – to describe, and codify the names of Museum-related people, events, collections and exhibits. These Museum-specific descriptions provide the background and structure for documenting the Museum’s history. Applying these authorities to archival materials allows researchers to discover relevant, primary source material from the AMNH Library and Archives (and beyond) through an interconnected system. In early 2026, this collection of resources was moved to the AMNH Museum’s ArchivesSpace repository.
The Gottesman Research Library is a founding member and regular contributor to the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) global consortium of natural history, botanical, research, and national libraries. BHL improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.
Formerly based in the Gottesman Research Library, The Darwin Manuscripts Project (DMP) is the world's first large collection of transcribed images of Darwin's manuscripts and notes. The DMP gratefully acknowledges the cooperation of Cambridge University Library, Down House—Darwin’s former home—and the other public and private collections that hold the original documents.
