University of California, Berkeley - Research

The University of California, Berkeley has many extremely valuable collections of non-book artifacts and objects housed in campus libraries, museums, and archives. Managing, conserving, and providing access to these collections is an important contribution to the fulfillment of the University's research, teaching, and public service mission. These collections document the cultural, biological and physical diversity of California and a significant portion of other regions and cultures of the world. The collections support research and teaching in many disciplines including anthropology, architecture, art practice, art history, botany, engineering, entomology, film history, geology, history, linguistics, paleontology, physics, and zoology. The collections are large and diverse in content and many are among the premier collections of their kind in the world. The following archives, centers, departments, institutes, museums, libraries, and other university organizations house and maintain these collections.