Oslo Zoological Museum

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The Zoological Museum in Oslo.
A stuffed Australian bag wolf , of which only a handful are left in the world.

The Oslo Zoological Museum ( Norwegian Zoologisk museum ) is located in the Tøyen district of Oslo and is part of the Naturhistorisk Museum ( NHM ) which belongs to the University of Oslo (UiO). The museum is connected to the Geological Museum ( Norwegian Geologisk museum ) in the neighboring building and the entrances to both museums are open to the public in parallel. Both museums are monumental stone buildings in the national romantic style in the botanical garden of Tøyen in Oslo. The Zoological Museum was opened to visitors on February 2, 1910. In the 1970s the Zoological Museum was rebuilt and the exhibitions completely revised.

The museum has an extensive collection of the total of two million exhibits and animal preparations from around the world, of which, however, only a small part can be exhibited due to lack of space. The exhibited animal preparations are all presented to visitors in their natural surroundings. On the ground floor there is an introductory room which gives an overview of the zoology, the diversity, migration and adaptation of the animal world to the environment. A diorama of Norwegian natural landscapes with corresponding animal preparations extends over two floors of the building .

In the systematics room, one of the permanent exhibitions on the exhibits can be seen with a systematic overview of Norway's animal species. In the Nordic Hall, native predators such as bears , lynxes , wolves and wolverines are presented up close, as is animal life on the seabed and in the air. The Nordic Hall is connected to the Svalbard Hall, which is specially dedicated to the fauna of Spitsbergen .

The zoo is located on the second floor with a valuable collection with many exhibits and preparations on various wild animals from all over the world. These include two preparations from the extinct species of the giant alc and the Australian tassel wolf .

To mark the 200th anniversary of the University of Oslo, the building was officially by the Norwegian zoologist 2 September 2011 Robert Collett in Robert Collett House ( Norwegian Robert Collett hus renamed).

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  1. ↑ museum director Arne Bjørlykke: UiO: Naturhistorik museum (building on Toyen gets new name of the university anniversary). Press release: Museumsbygningene på Tøyen får nye navn til UiO-jubileet. nhm.uio.no, September 2, 2011, accessed August 1, 2013 (Norwegian).

Coordinates: 59 ° 55 ′ 11.1 ″  N , 10 ° 46 ′ 16.1 ″  E