Turun yliopiston eläinmuseo
The exhibition of the University of Turku Zoological Museum features tropical arthropods and the museum's earliest collections, dating from the early 19th century.
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About the museum
The University of Turku Zoological Museum maintains and develops one of Finland's two largest natural science collections, in which almost four million specimens are stored. The foundations of the collections were the insect and bird collections acquired by the Turun Suomalainen Yliopistoseura (Turku Finnish University Society) in 1920–1921, which included the extensive insect collections of the Sahlberg family.
The history of research on Turku's fauna goes back to the era of the Turku Academy. Carl Reinhold Sahlberg (1779–1860) is one of the world's most important entomologists, and the Sahlberg collections are among the few specimens from Turku that survived the great fire of 1827. The museum's research focuses on animal groups that are little studied elsewhere in the world, and the museum also holds the biological animal collections of Åbo Akademi.
In the exhibition open to visitors are displayed the most remarkable tropical arthropod species, such as a butterfly considered the most beautiful in the world, and the largest wasps of the rainforest. The museum's earliest collections, from the early 1800s, can be viewed in the history exhibition.
Highlights
- Exhibition of tropical arthropods
- History exhibition on the early 1800s collections
- Sahlberg insect collections
- Nearly 4 million specimens
- Independent visits on weekdays
Permanent exhibitions
- Tropiikin niveljalkaiset – The exhibition features the most remarkable tropical arthropod species, such as butterflies and the large wasps of the rainforest.
- Historianäyttely – The exhibition presents the museum's earliest collections from the early 1800s.
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- Turun yliopisto
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The museum is located on Yliopistonmäki in Turku.
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| Good to know | Both groups and individual visitors are welcome for independent visits. The entrance is marked on the map on the museum's website. |
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