The museum's Zoological Collection has its origins in Kilian Stobaeus 'donation to the university in 1735. Since then, the collections have grown continuously through private donations and researchers' collections of both animals on land and in water, which means that today we have a rich collection of both domestic and foreign species from around the world.

The zoological collection include large collections of type material of approximately 150 types of vertebrates and 1 400 invertebrates, other than insects.

Hedgehog, photo Jonas Brane