Now live FloraDiva!
Let's explore the biodiversity from the Herbarium Tridentinum!
MUSE Research and Collection team is happy to announce the new citizen science project on label transcription!
April is Citizen Science Month! 😀 SciStarter.org has a goal this year of 2.50 Million Acts of Science across all projects including ours!
Disponibile ora FloraDiva!
Esplora la biodiversità dell’Herbarium Tridentinum! Il team Ricerca e Collezioni del MUSE è lieto di annunciare il nuovo progetto di citizen science sulla trascrizione di cartellini storici conservati negli erbari del Museo.
Aprile è il mese della Citizen Science! 😀 SciStarter.org si pone come obiettivo di raggiungere i 2,5 milioni di Acts For Science attraverso tutti i progetti di Citizen Science, incluso il nostro!
Explore the Herbarium Tridentinum (MUSE, Italy) and help us digitise botanical data!
Learn moreWelcome to our Herbarium! Each workflow represents a different collection, with its own origin, contributors, period, species, and even label language—so feel free to choose your favorite!
The workflows may differ slightly to reflect the labels and the uniqueness of each collection.
Zooniverse Talk
Chat with the research team and other volunteers!
FloraDiva Statistics
View more statsEvery click counts! Join FloraDiva's community to complete this project and help researchers produce important results.
Message from the researcher
"Digitization is fundamental to the museum; it helps to easily share information among people and institutions for conservation, research and education. Every data could be a tile of a biodiversity worldwide mosaic, it's a challenge and we ask for your help, Citizen Scientists! Let’s explore Herbarium Tridentinum and take part in the digitization process, any label transcribed can make the difference!"
FloraDivaAbout FloraDiva
The MUSE – Science Museum of Trento (Italy) preserves over 150,000 specimens of plants, mosses, lichens, and fungi. This important collection is internationally known as Herbarium Tridentinum - TR. The specimens were collected from the early 1800s to the present day, primarily from Trentino, South Tyrol and Italy. There is also a significant portion coming from many other countries in Europe, Asia, Australia and America. Many of these specimens are linked to the work of 19th- and 20th-century regional botanists, including Enrico Gelmi, Francesco Facchini, Francesco Ambrosi, Giacomo Bresadola, and many others.
This heritage is the heart of the FloraDiva project, where technology and collection care work together with citizens to mobilise museum collections data. Through this project, co-funded by Fondazione Caritro and with the collaboration of the Fondazione Museo Civico of Rovereto, MUSE aims to make this scientific and historical heritage digitally accessible, returning it to citizens and the scientific community. The project focuses on herbarium curation, digitisation, detailed study, and experimentation with innovative methods, involving citizens in the process.