The Museum is divided into curator supervised areas based on scientific discipline. Each curator administers a specific collection. Acquisition, cataloguing, preservation, and conservation are the responsibility of the individual curators.

The Museum currently holds collections associated with ten areas of natural history:

1. Anthropology (Ethnological, Material Culture collections).
2. Botany (Herbarium).
3. Entomology (Insect and Arachnid collections).
4. Geology (Mineral, and Rock collections).
5. Herpetology (Amphibians and Reptiles).
6. Ichthyology (Fish and Tissue collection).
7. Mammalogy (Osteological, Full-mount and Study Skin collections).
8. Ornithology (Full-mount, Study Skin, Egg and Nest collections).
9. Parasitology (Slide collection).
10. Paleontology (Plant, Vertebrate and Invertebrate fossils).