is housed at the Foraminifera.eu Lab in Hamburg, Germany and in Bologna, Italy.
It contains millions of specimens, of which 7.200 are identified, photographed and catalogued. 3.662 specimens are fossils.
They represent 1.569 species (212 sp.), of which 1.005 are fossils. The collection does not contain type material but focuses on assemblages.
Part of the collection are the Cesare Brizio collection and the Plummercell slides of Karl-Otto Bock.

Planned Activities in 2025:

Video Talk THE FORAMINIFERA.EU PHYSICAL COLLECTION.
at the 5th Palaeontological virtual congress to be watched between 10.-25. March 2025 in the Session:
Unlocking the Potential of Palaeontological Collections: Challenges, Innovations, and Future Perspectives.

Continuous enlargement of the collection

Publishing a paper about the collection in the Revue de micropaléontologie
Special Edition 'Micropaleontology collections: from history to curation'.