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Address:
Universitetsparken 15, 2100 Copenhagen
Opening Hours:
Tuesday through Sunday from 11 am to 5 pm.
Contact:
Henrik Enghoff, Director
henghoff@zmuc.ku.dk
Phone: +45 3532 1001
Fax: +45 3532 1010
Links:
Zoological Museum
University of Copenhagen
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Description:
History: By virtue of its collections and type material the Copenhagen Zoological Museum ranks as one of the ten most important in the world. For a full account from the 1500s please see the web site: http://www.zmuc.dk/HeadWeb/old-museum.htm
Research: The Museum's central research areas are systematic zoology and zoogeography: identification, description and naming of species, interpretation of their relationships and the historical and geographical aspects of evolution. The research is organized in three scientific departments: 1st Department - Vertebrates and Quaternary Zoology, 2nd Department - Invertebrates (excl. insects, myriapods and arachnids), 3rd Department - Entomology.
Exhibitions:The Exhibition Department is responsible for the permanent and temporary exhibitions, the public education programs and the school service. The permanent exhibitions were opened in 1970 and are gradually being renewed and revised.
The total exhibition area is 5600 m2 situated in the three top floors of the building. The first level houses the exhibit on the Danish Fauna. It is arranged after landscape types and is ecologically oriented. Each section consists of one or more dioramas followed by more detailed information, including ecological or ethological principles, which is pertinent to that type of landscape. In addition, there is a systematic collection of Danish vertebrates. The second level, From Pole to Pole, gives examples of the fauna in the World's climatic zones, mainly as dioramas. This level also houses the large Ocean Hall dominated by the skeletons of a bowhead and a sperm whale, and two thematic rooms describing life in the oceans. The third level is at present unused for exhibition purposes, but detailed plans for an evolution and biodiversity exhibition are completed and will be carried out as soon as funding has been found.
(From the Museum's website)
Further Reading:
The Museum publishes two journals: Insect Systematics & Evolution (Formerly known as Entomologica Scandinavica) and Steenstrupia (House Journal) .
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