Visit all the Macquarie University Museums!

1. Macquarie University Art Gallery, E11A, ground floor
2. Australian History Museum, W6A, ground floor  
3. Museum of Ancient Cultures, X5B Level 3
4. The Lachlan Macquarie Room, in the Library
5. The Aboriginal Technology and Bio-resources Collection.
6. The Biological Sciences Museum in E8B
7. The Downing Herbarium
8. The Earth Sciences Museum
9. Errol Davis Sculpture Park
10. Museum Studies Collection

Museums @ Macquarie

Mosses and liverworts...

Prize winning photo courtesy Ron Oldfield

Featuring The Downing Herbarium in E8C

The herbarium is a collection of dried plant specimens, including marine algae, mosses and liverworts, lichens, ferns, conifers and flowering plants.

The collection has been established for the use of staff and students and is also available to the wider community by prior arrangement with the curators.

The herbarium is located in Room 148 in Building E8C. The data base can be accessed through the Macquarie University Museums and Collections Data Base.

Contact the Curators for more information.

Mrs Alison Downing
Ph. (02) 9850 8197
Fax. (02) 9850 8245
adowning@rna.bio.mq.edu.au

Dr Wade Tozer
Ph. (02) 9850 8194
wade.tozer@mq.edu.au

Marine algae...

Photo courtesy Macquarie University.

More marine algae...

Photo courtesy Macquarie University.

Lichens ...

Photo courtesy flickr.

Ferns ...

Photo courtesy flickr.

Conifers ...

Photo courtesy wikipedia commons.