The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History houses Israel’s national natural history collections, including around five million animals and plants that tell the story of biodiversity in Israel and the Middle East during the past century.
The museum is moving to a new purpose-built state-of-the-art facility that will house the collections, displays, classrooms and lecture hall (where the conference will take place) and research infrastructure.
The reptile collection includes ~18,000 specimens (mostly of lizards) belonging to ~600 species. Most specimens are from Israel and its surrounding countries, but with substantial collections from Greece, the USA and East Africa (Eritrea, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia). Overall reptiles from 100 countries are represented in the collections.
The museum is moving to a new purpose-built state-of-the-art facility that will house the collections, displays, classrooms and lecture hall (where the conference will take place) and research infrastructure.
The reptile collection includes ~18,000 specimens (mostly of lizards) belonging to ~600 species. Most specimens are from Israel and its surrounding countries, but with substantial collections from Greece, the USA and East Africa (Eritrea, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia). Overall reptiles from 100 countries are represented in the collections.