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Nature 432, 659 (9 December 2004) | doi:10.1038/432659a; Published online 8 December 2004

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Curators bugged by museum's vision for insect collection

Jim Giles

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Staff complain about London's insect relocation plan.

Plans to move one of the world's premier natural history collections into new state-of-the-art premises are being resisted by researchers, who say that the relocation will hurt their ability to do their work.By 2008, the mahogany cabinets that house the 28 million insect specimens at the Natural History Museum in London will be replaced by metal shelving and a sophisticated humidity control system in a striking new building at the museum's South Kensington site.