Tour Brown University Herbarium on April 1 from 10 to 11:30 am.  The Brown Herbarium is located on the second floor of the Biomedical Center, 171 Meeting St, Providence.  

photo credit, Brown University Herbarium

Brown University Herbarium offers a priceless snapshot of botanical life, in Rhode Island and across the nation and the world, in the 19th and early 20th centuries. At Brown University Herbarium, Rebecca Kartzinel, Director, invites you to tour the collection and consider its value to science and conservation.

Learn about the importance of herbaria, the history of Brown’s collections, and our current projects. Learn about how specimens are mounted and prepared for accession into the collection. Try a small herbarium challenge to decipher the labels of specimens.  Dr. Kartinzel, member of the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology at Brown, earned her Ph.D. in Plant Biology from the University of Georgia in 2013 and has been director of the Brown University Herbarium since 2019.

This program is open to the public and is free. Donations are appreciated and support our educational outreach.   Donate now.

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