荷兰皇家艺术和科学院一部分，拥有世界知名的微生物生物资源中心，致力于进行高度创新的真菌学研究，发现和理解真菌及其生物多样性以及应对社会挑战的潜在解决方案。探索、研究和保存真菌种类、相关性质以及真菌解决世界问题的潜力。加强与科学界在学术，医学，农业和工业领域的基础和应用研究方面的合作，就科学、健康相关或工业性质的真菌学问题提供建议和方案。 

Part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, with its world-renowned Microbial Biological Resource Centre, dedicated to conducting highly innovative mycological research, discovering and understanding fungi and their biodiversity, and potential solutions to societal challenges. Explore, study and preserve fungal species, associated properties, and fungi's potential to solve the world's problems. Strengthen collaboration with the scientific community in basic and applied research in the academic, medical, agricultural and industrial fields to provide advice and programmes on scientific, health-related or industrial mycological issues.