EOBM


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The mandate of the Eastern Ontario Biodiversity Museum is to encourage appreciation and understanding of the natural communities of Eastern Ontario and to educate about biodiversity. The EOBM is also a centre for research and a repository for natural history collections representing Eastern Ontario, with a strong emphasis on gathering and sharing information with the public. The EOBM is open to the public and active year-round.

The geographical mandate of the EOBM includes Lanark, Leeds-Grenville, Ottawa-Carleton, Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry, and Prescott-Russell as a core area for programming and exhibits outreach //map//. The scientific research and collections mandate extends beyond this core area to cover Eastern Ontario from Kingston to Algonquin Park to Pembroke and parts of the drainage basins of the Ottawa and St. Lawrence Rivers upstream of Montreal, including aeas of northern New York State and western Quebec.


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The Eastern Ontario
Biodiversity Museum

The EOBM is the only independent, full-service natural history museum in the province, with a focus on exhibits, collections, and research. It has also become a leader in biodiversity education in Eastern Ontario, through school and public programmes, field outings, and publications. In addition, through the Eastern Ontario Natural History Observer Network and the e-mail "NatureList", the public is actively involved in the monitoring and conservation of biodiversity in this region. Members receive the 16-page quarterly newsletter "The EOBM Almanack".

The EOBM was federally incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1998. It has applied for charitable status and until that is granted, donations are channelled through its parent organization, the Canadian Biodiversity Institue (#896156171 RR0001). The EOBM is a member of the Ontario Museums Association. Since opening to the public on 1 July 1999, thousands of visitors have come through our doors.

The impetus for the founding of the Eastern Ontario Biodiversity Museum , was to provide a local home for the orphaned natural history collections of Carleton University, notably the "Carleton University Museum of Zoology" (CUMZ) of Mammals and Birds, and the "Carleton College Ottawa (CCO) herbarium of plants. Since that time, the EOBM has also received donations of private collections of Eastern Ontario ferns, insects, and molluscs. Our current collections number approximately 100,000 specimens. The EOBM has undertaken to catalogue this large collection and has developed a comprehensive database which allows ready retrieval of specimen information as well as natural history observations.

The EOBM is located on the lower level of Northside Plaza, 215 Sanders Street, Kemptville, a few kilometres west of Highway 416, and half an hour south of Ottawa. Phone (613)258-3415, e-mail