[1] The museum has eleven different collections in Anthropology, Arthropods, Botany, Geology, Herpetology, Ichthyology, Invertebrate, Mammalogy, Mycology, Ornithology, and Zooarchaeology.

[5] The GMNH provides natural history education opportunities to the public and its surrounding communities in addition to assisting in research endeavors.

The museum also has an Internship Program that provides University of Georgia (UGA) undergraduates with hands-on collections experience.

[11] In 1856 the Botanical Gardens were sold, and the money was used to build the iron fence and famous Arch that still surrounds UGA's North Campus today.

[5] The Science Box Project provides materials such as artifacts, posters, games, videos, books, and other objects on a specific topic in natural history to K-8 teachers.

[18] The Friends of the GMNH also play a role in supporting the museum's education and outreach initiatives through fundraising, raising awareness, and more.

[19] The GMNH offers an internship program for the University of Georgia's undergraduate students to gain experience working with the museum collections in the fall, spring, and summer semesters.

Collections available for internships are Archaeology, Entomology, Geology, Herbarium, Herpetology, Ichthyology, Invertebrate, Mammalogy, Mycology, and Ornithology.

Interns learn about natural history museums and collections by working closely with GMNH staff for a total of roughly 105 hours over the semester.

[4] The Anthropology Collection is made up of pottery and various remains, adding up to a total of over 3 million artifacts and specimens, making it the most extensive in the state.

The Arthropods Collection is part of the Entomology Department at UGA, and it houses more than 1 million pinned and alcohol-preserved insect specimens.

The Mycology Collection houses over 30,000 specimens of fungi from the Southeast and other parts of the world and is particularly rich in ascomycetes of Georgia and the tropical Americas.

This Mycological Herbarium is an internationally recognized repository for research projects conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and it's one of the few significant collections of its kind in the country.

The Zooarchaeology Collection is used to identify animal remains for universities, museums, and government agencies throughout the Southeast, the Caribbean, and South America.