**Code**: [C](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=126643) **Organization**: University of Copenhagen **Division**: Natural History Museum of Denmark **Location**: Copenhagen, Denmark **Total number of specimens**: 2900000 **Current status**: Active **Date founded**: 1759 **Taxonomic coverage**: vascular plants, bryophytes, lichens, algae, fungi **Geographic coverage**: Worldwide, especially Denmark, Greenland, Iceland, and Faeroe Islands; some arctic, Mediterranean, especially Greece, tropical eastern and northeastern Africa, especially Ethiopia, southeastern Asia, especially Thailand, and Central and South America **Incorporated herbaria**: AAU (lichens), CP (90,000 specimens in 2016) **Important collectors**: B. Asmund, T. W. Böcher, F. C. E. Börgesen, P. Boye Petersen, T. Christensen, J. Deichmann Branth, H. F. A. von Eggers, N. Foged, P. Forsskål, O. Galløe, E. C. Hansen, N. Hartz, K. Hauerslev, K. Holmen, J. W. Hornemann, P. E. Isert, C. E. O. Jensen, B. Kamphövener, J. G. König, J. Kristiansen, J. E. Lange, F. M. Liebmann, S. Lund, P. W. Lund, H. C. Lyngbye, H. Mølholm Hansen, F. H. Møller, Max Møller, P. Møller Pedersen, I. Munda, R. Nielsen, G. Nygård, S. Olsen, A. S. Ørsted, H. C. Ostenfeld, E. Østrup, O. Paulsen, M. P. Porsild, F. C. Raben, C. Raunkiær, L. K. Rosenvinge, F. G. E. Rostrup, O. G. F. Rostrup, J. Ryan, J. Schmidt, P. K. A. Schousboe, J. F. Schouw, C. F. Schumacher, G. Seidenfaden, C. Smith, T. Sørensen, P. Thonning, J. Vahl, M. Vahl, N. Wallich, J. E. B. Warming **Notes**: In 2004 the Botanical Museum, the Library, the Botanical Garden, the Zoological Museum, and the Geological Museum were merged and became the Natural History Museum of Denmark. The Natural History Museum is a department of the University of Copenhagen. Museum Botanicum Hauniense = C. Herbarium C is housed in temporary premises within an hour's travel outside Copenhagen until 2020 while we build a new Natural History Museum in the Botanical Gardens in Copenhagen. Please note the Danish Greenlandic collections are currently without curation, but accessible to the extent possible through our curatorial managers. **Date modified in Index Herbariorum**: 2019-10-07 > [!cite] This page is automatically generated • Data on this page were obtained from [Index Herbariorum](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/) on 2023-08-23. • Meaning of acronyms in TL-2 is not always the same as in IH. Consult list of original [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]] if you suspect acronym mismatch.