Museum of Biological Diversity (MBD)

614-292-7773
mbd@osu.edu

1315 Kinnear Road
Columbus, OH 43212

Chair/Director
Marymegan Daly

The Ohio State University Museum of Biological Diversity (MBD) comprises the biological specimen collections at Ohio State (except fossils). A unit within the Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, its primary mission is devoted to the preservation, documentation, scientific study and interpretation of biological diversity and the training of the next generation of biodiversity scientists.