University Museum Utrecht

Description

The University Museum Utrecht (UMU) makes cultural heritage and science accessible for a wide audience. The UMU collection has over 200.000 objects and covers all scientific disciplines of Utrecht University, but with a special focus on prepared objects, educational model objects, and historical equipment that were used in the fields of natural science, medical science, psychiatry and veterinary science. The UMU is part of Utrecht University, which means objects are still added to the collection, and the material is also available for education and research purposes. The natural history collection of is the UMU comprises the historic teaching and research collections from Utrecht University. These stem from the former Zoological Museum and department of Biology, the department of Earth Sciences, the Institute of Phytopathology, the former Anthropobiological Institute, the department of Pharmacy and the Veterinary Institute. The oldest specimens date from the 18th century.The collection contains dry and wet zoological specimens, anatomical zoological preparations, botanical material (pathological plant specimens, pharmaceutical simplicia: ‘materia medica’, fossils, rock and soil samples and furthermore plaster casts and different types of teaching models.Some notable subcollections are:•the late 18th-early 19th century collection of comparative anatomy, within the zoological collection•the collection of phytopathology•the collection of original Cinchona specimens, within the pharmaceutical collection•fossil specimens from cores mainly collected in Utrecht, Amsterdam and Amersfoort in the 19th and early 20th century in the search for suitable drinking water. The material from Amersfoort is original material from the type locality of the Eemien and contains many type specimens•an extensive collection of plaster casts of hominid fossils, containing casts of the majority of fossils collected up to 1960•Blaschka models, made of glass, of invertebrate sea animals such as jelly fish, molluscs and echinoderms

Contacts

TECHNICAL_POINT_OF_CONTACT
Jet Blokhuis
Telephone: +31(0)648434741
email: h.h.blokhuis@uu.nl

POINT_OF_CONTACT
Paul Lambers
Telephone: +31(0)648434746
email: p.h.lambers@uu.nl

University Museum Utrecht
Lange Nieuwstraat, 106
Utrecht
3512 PN
Utrecht
NL
email: info.museum@uu.nl