This fall we are open to the public for families, friends and individuals, but groups (e.g. scouts, school groups, homeschool groups) must make reservations and everyone must follow the UC Davis visitor guidelines: https://campusready.ucdavis.edu/visitors.
About the Bohart Museum
Mission Statement: Understanding, documenting & communicating terrestrial arthropod diversity.
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Click the video above to learn about the Bohart Museum of Entomology or here for a synopsis of the museum.
Click the above photo of t.v. personality Huell Howser visiting the Bohart for a Chapman University archived video of his travel show "California's Gold" Road Trip to UC Davis
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The R. M. Bohart Museum of Entomology, founded in 1946, is located on the University of California, Davis campus. The museum is dedicated to teaching, research and service. We have the seventh largest insect collection in North America, and is worldwide in coverage. The collection holdings total more than seven million specimens of terrestrial and fresh water arthropods. The museum is also home of the California Insect Survey, a storehouse of the insect biodiversity of California's deserts, mountains, coast, and the Great Central Valley.
Assassin Bug, Family Reduviidae, Photo by Andrew Richards.
The Value of Museum Collections for Research and Society
This is a comprehensive article written by Profs. Suarez and Tsutsui, graduates of UC Davis.
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