Kaunas Tadas Ivanauskas Museum of Zoology

Description

The museum houses the largest zoological collection in Lithuania, with more than 300,000 specimens of various zoological preparations: stuffed animals, skeletons, skulls, study skins, fluid-preserved specimens, eggs, mummified (dry) specimens etc. From tiny-scale insects to giraffes. One part of the collection is for teaching objectives (exhibition, demonstration), and the other is for purposes of scientific research. The collections are divided into groups: mammal collections (8,000) specimens; avian collections (12,000); herpetology collections (3,700); fish collections (3,400); invertebrate collections (59,000); entomology collections (220,000).

Contacts

ADMINISTRATIVE_POINT_OF_CONTACT
Albertas Gurskas
email: albertas.gurskas@zoomuziejus.lt

POINT_OF_CONTACT
Kazimieras Martinaitis
Telephone: +37060865496
email: kazimieras.martinaitis@zoomuziejus.lt

Kaunas Tadas Ivanauskas Museum of Zoology
Laisvės al. 106
Kaunas
LT-44253
Kaunas
LT
email: kazimieras.martinaitis@zoomuziejus.lt