Finnish Museum of Natural History

Helsinki Top 5 in Must-Visit Museums

One of the most popular museums in Finland, it has a main museum and two botanical gardens, a collection of animals, plants, fungi, minerals and fossil specimens, and is a window into Finland's nature.

Helsinki: Come home to a runaway museum. The Natural History Museum loves it a lot. Unfortunately, there is not enough time to pass by. This museum is highly recommended. There are ecological environments and animal specimens of all continents and periods, especially simulation scenes of which animals can live in one place. The details are great. It is also the only place in Finland that collects tickets for children.

The name of the museum is called 'Finnish Museum of Natural History' (Finnish Museum of Natural History). It is one of the three major national central museums in Finland, but it is a university in Helsinki, and it has many functions such as scientific education and popular science exhibition. The total collection is about 13 million copies, which accounts for more than 50 percent of all Finland's collections. Luomus has three parks (attractions) located in the center of Helsinki, two of which are botanical gardens. The Kaisaniemi botanical garden is close to the Central Railway Station, where plants from different climatic zones of the Earth are planted and exhibited. The Kumpula Botanical Garden focuses on flower gardening, with more than 50,000 geological ore, more than 600 meteorites and 4.4 10,000 fossil paleontological objects. There are about 3.3 million plant and fungal specimens in both botanical gardens. The core of Luomus is the Museum of Nature, located on the west side of the Central Railway Station and behind the Parliament Building, which houses and exhibits specimens of animals from Finland and around the world, and is divided into 5 permanent exhibition areas (Finland Nature, World Nature, Life History, Skeletal Stories, The new Baroque building, built in 1913, has remained the same for more than 100 years. The Russian Academy of boys (tsars 2 after independence) was requisitioned by the Finnish army in 1917 years, and in 1919 it became the first military school in Finland. In 1923, the University of Helsinki bought the building from the government, built the zoology department of the University of Helsinki, and built a museum of animals that collected specimens. With the increasing of public education, the old visiting mode can not meet the social needs. In 1988, the Finland Museum of natural history (Luomus) attached to the University of Helsinki was established, and the exhibition department was established (the number of tourists of the dinosaur half year was 14.8 million in 1994), and the original "animal museum" was officially renamed "natural museum" in 1996. In 2002, the University of Helsinki zoology department withdrew from the museum and moved to the new campus of Viikki, and in 2005, the University of Helsinki carried out a three-year comprehensive renovation of the building (renovated 253 old wooden windows and over 100 doors). The reopening of the natural museum is one of the most popular museums in Finland with a new look.

It is suitable for parents to go with their children. There are family discount tickets and a children’s activity room with a beautiful environment.

The environment is really good.