Welcome to the Vertebrate Museum!

The Cal Poly Humboldt Vertebrate Museum is home to over 15,000 mammal, amphibian, and reptile specimens. We serve the university and scientific community as a center for ecology, evolution and conservation teaching, and for field and specimen-based research. We provide training for students in everything from fieldwork, to museum specimen preparation, to modern genetic analyses. The Museum is also a member of the Marine Mammal Stranding Network, a national organization charged with attending to stranded marine mammals, and is responsible for salvaging stranded mammals on the California coast from Shelter Cove to the Oregon border. The Vertebrate Museum is located in Science C.