Natural History Museum – Wroclaw University

The Museum of Natural History, Wroclaw University, is the largest institution of this kind in Poland. It came into existence in 1814. Its collections comprise numerous unique specimens of extinct and rare species such as the Great Auk, Passenger Pigeon, Carolina Parakeet, Huia or Marsupial Wolf.

This museum, which is extremely popular with children, has a substantial collection of animals and plants from all continents. The collections of tropical butterflies, shells and mammal skeletons are the largest in Poland. Some date back to the 18th century, and formed the beginnings of the University's Zoological Museum, which was set up in 1820. Since 1904 the exhibits have been displayed in a purpose-built wing of this Art Nouveau building. One of the most precious exhibits in the Museum's collection is a skeleton of the Giant Elk, a species got extinct before 10 thousand years, which is displayed in "The Vertebrates Skeletal System" section. The span of antlers of this species exceeded 3 m. In its collection the Museum possesses also the best preserved in Poland skull of the Aurochs or Wild Ox, the ancestor of domestic cattle. This mammal was entirely exterminated in the Middle Ages. The highlight of the collection, displayed in "The Animal World" exhibition, is the only in Poland complete skeleton of the largest animal which has ever lived on the earth, namely the Blue Whale.
Permanent exhibitions:
-Plant World
-Vertebrate Skeletal System
-Insects and Man [Around Central Wroclaw]

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