Collections Databases

Photo: Cathy Morris/Burke Museum
Photo: Cathy Morris/Burke Museum

Thank you for visiting the Burke Museum website. Access to many of the Burke’s collections databases are available online through other resources with whom we share our data. 

Due to a devastating ransomware attack, access to Archaeology, Arts & Cultures, and Ichthyology’s Ototlith databases are no longer available online.  Please contact the relevant collections manager if you have a specific research request. Thank you for your understanding. 

Search the Collections

The Burke Museum's collection consists of more than 18 million biological, geological, and cultural objects from Washington state and around the world.

Arts & Cultures Collections

The Arts & Cultures department at the Burke Museum cares for more than 57,000 cultural belongings from across the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific Islands.

Arachnology

Search the Burke's arachnology collection, including spiders and harvestmen.

Genetic Resources

Search for frozen tissues held in the Burke’s GRC via our Herpetology, Mammalogy, and Ornithology databases.

Herpetology Collections

Search the Burke's amphibian and reptile collections.

Ichthyology Collections

Specimens including adult fishes, juveniles, larvae, eggs, skeletons, tissues, and scales.
Does not include otoliths.

Invertebrate Paleontology

Search the Burke's fossil invertebrates.

Mammalogy Collections

Search the Burke's mammalogy collection.

Ornithology Collections

Search the Burke's ornithology collection for bird study skins, spread wings, bird skeletons, egg sets, nests, and frozen tissue samples.

Paleobotany Collections

Search the Burke's paleobotany collections — fossilized leaves, flowers, wood, and more.

Plant & Fungi Collections

Vascular plants, nonvascular plants, macrofungi, lichenized fungi, and algae (brown, green, and red).

Vertebrate Paleontology Collections

Search the Burke's vertebrate paleontology collections, including fossil mammals, birds, dinosaurs, and more.

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Photo: Timothy Kenney/Burke Museum
Photo: Timothy Kenney/Burke Museum