UMAC Worldwide Database of University Museums & Collections

Address:
University of Oulu, Dept. of Biology, Zoological Museum PL 3000,, FIN-90014

Opening Hours:
Mon-Fri 8.30 - 15.45, Sun 11.00 - 15.00, Sat closed

Contact:
Mikko Mönkkönen, Senior Curator
zoological.museum@oulu.fi
Phone: +358 -8-553 1214
Fax: +358 -8-553 1061

Links:
Eläinmsueo
University of Oulu

Description:
Zoological Museum of the University of Oulu focuses on northern nature and species. The main tasks are education and research.

At the present there are about 50 000 vertebrate and about two million invertebrate specimens in the museum. Besides the Museum's own collecting activity, authorities and private citizens bring to the Museum wild animals, that they have found dead. The material collected in students' thesis research also becomes part of the Museum's collections.

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