Welcome to the Zoological museum

Linnanmaa, doors A and A1 (see the map )

The museum is exceptionally open on Saturday 30.4, Sunday 1.5, Saturday 7.5. and Sunday  8.5 at 11-15.

Open: Mon-Fri 8.30 - 15.45, Sunday and Saturday closed. 

Free admission: voluntary fee.

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.

The 50-years anniversary exhibition of the musem "On the tracks of Mammoth" will be opened on 4th March 2010. The exhibition is open Mon-Fri 8.30-15.45 and exceptionally also on Sat 20th and Sun 21th March at 11–15. 

Contact information:

University of Oulu, Dept. of Biology, Zoological Museum, PO. Box 3000, FIN-90014 University of Oulu, FINLAND

E-mail: zoological.museum(at)oulu.fi

The e-mail addresses of the staff are in the form: first_name.surname@oulu.fi

Fax : +358 -8-553 1061

Senior Curator Jouni Aspi , tel. +358 -8-553 1214

Conservator Atte Lahtela (vertebrates), tel. +358 -8-553 126 2

Research Technician Tuula Pudas, puh. (08) 553 1263

Preparator Päivi Tanner, puh. (08) 553 1254

Curator Risto Tornberg (vertebrates), tel. +358 -8-553 1264

Vertebrate material available

Brochure of the Museum (pdf)