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A shelving unit with numerous compartments, filled with stacks of paper, is topped with an assortment of flower vases. The vases contain various types of flowers and are arranged in a line above the cubby holes.

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The Bailey Herbarium has more than 32,000 specimens.  In 2021 we teamed up with the University of Minnesota Bell Museum Herbarium to make our collections publicly available as part of the Bell Museum Biodiversity Atlas.  Dr. George Weiblen (Bell Museum Science Director, Curator of Plants and Professor) obtained funding through the LCCMR program (Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources) to work with outstate herbaria with the goal of including collections from the entire state in the Biodiversity Atlas.  We boxed up our entire herbarium and then George, along with Dr. Tim Whitfeld (Herbarium Collections Manager),  hauled the collections to St. Paul where their team took digital images of every specimen.  The data and images from each specimen are then uploaded into the Biodiversity Atlas.  At this time, more than half of our specimens are available to search and we are working on uploading the remainder.  Visit the Bell Museum Biodiversity to search our collections.