Royal Museum of Central Africa - Metafro-Infosys - Xylarium

The Xylarium of Tervuren (Tw) : the collection of wood includes 56,000 specimens of 13,600 different botanical species from around the world. It is therefore the second largest collection in the world and the largest in Europe. It contains wood from all growing plant forms which produce secondary xylem. Lignified plant tissues are omnipresent in the terrestrial living nature. Also a big part of the material culture consists of wooden objects. Because of the multifunctional character of wood, the Tervuren Xylarium should in principle serve the different disciplines interested in wood research: technology, ecology, palaeontology, art history, archaeology, etc. Since the Tervuren Xylarium is the only governmental wood collection in Belgium there is no geographical limitation: it has a worldwide concern. Because of the scientific nature of the collection, the validation of it depends largely on derivative collections like thin sections for microscopy and microphotographs. Moreover there are collections of stem discs that make dendrochronological research possible.特尔夫伦木材标本馆（Xylarium，Tw）：该馆藏汇集了来自全球各地的56000份木材标本，涵盖13600个不同的植物物种，是全球第二大、欧洲规模最大的木材标本馆藏。其馆藏覆盖所有能够产生次生木质部（secondary xylem）的植物类群的木材样本。木质化植物组织广泛分布于陆生生物界，而物质文化的核心组成部分亦多为木质器物。鉴于木材兼具多重功能特性，特尔夫伦木材标本馆原则上应服务于所有涉及木材研究的学科领域，包括木材工程学、生态学、古生物学、艺术史、考古学等。由于特尔夫伦木材标本馆是比利时唯一的官方木材馆藏，其服务范畴并无地理限制，具备全球研究价值。鉴于该馆藏的科研属性，其科学性核验很大程度上依赖于配套衍生馆藏，例如用于显微观测的木材薄切片与显微照片。此外，馆藏还包含茎干圆盘样本，为树木年代学（dendrochronology）研究提供了可行条件。