Zoological Museum

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.