Elsie Welter Natural History Museum of Concordia College (CONCOL)

The Elsie Welter Natural History Museum is located on the first floor of the Integrated Science Center (ISC) at Concordia College in Moorhead, MN. The museum was named after influential area bird-watcher, world traveller, and Concordia adjunct biology professor Elsie M. Welter. The collections housed at the museum contain specimens in the areas of ornithology, mammalogy, entomology, botany, and malacology. The museum is open for students and researchers at Concordia College, with public outreach programs underway.

Contact: Joseph Whittaker (jwhittak@cord.edu)

Home Page: https://welter-museum.org/

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Global Unique Identifier: 0c7df88f-939e-4398-b9ab-e06c320dc598

DwC-Archive Publishing: https://bellatlas.umn.edu:443/collections/datasets/datapublisher.php

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Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)

Rights Holder: Concordia College

• 19,174 specimen records
• 132 (0.69%) georeferenced
• 383 families
• 733 genera
• 1,469 species