# Research Infrastructure
**Source**: https://research.anu.edu.au/research-infrastructure
**Parent**: https://research.anu.edu.au/
#### [Research Infrastructure handbook](https://d38uoqte0u6frq.cloudfront.net/files/2025-05/ANU%20Research%20Infrastructure%20Handbook%20May%202025%20online.pdf)
#### [Contact our team](https://services.anu.edu.au/business-units/research-initiatives-and-infrastructure)
#### [Find a researcher](https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/)
#### [Related links](#related-links)
The ANU is committed to fostering innovative and collaborative research activities and developing significant research infrastructure that will enable us to meet our national mission. ANU hosts nationally significant and unique capabilities that underpin research across all disciplines, including a number of capabilities supported by the Australian Government's National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).
Research infrastructure at ANU extends beyond physical facilities, machines and instrument. We invite you to explore this handbook to understand the diversity and scope of our resources and how to connect to them.
## [National research infrastructure](https://research.anu.edu.au/infrastructure/national-research-infrastructure)
As Australia's national university, we are committed to the development and provision of national-scale and high-impact research infrastructure for Australian researchers, students and partners. World-class research infrastructure is critical to Australia's capacity to undertake world-leading research, attract international talent, and transform the future economy of Australia.
[Read more](https://research.anu.edu.au/infrastructure/national-research-infrastructure)
## [ANU Collections](https://research.anu.edu.au/research-infrastructure/anu-collections)
The ANU holds over 50 specialist research, teaching and heritage collections – including, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander objects and cultural material, as well as cultural material from Asia and the Pacific, and West African regions, artworks, antiquities, a herbarium, geological and archaeological samples, biological specimens, scientific instruments, mid-century furniture and a wood library.
[Read more](https://research.anu.edu.au/research-infrastructure/anu-collections)
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