Quality and diversity of collections

The largest collections:

200,000 insects (especially butterflies and beetles)
68,000 vascular plants
13,000 mosses
13,000 fungi

The museum also has smaller collections of mounted mammals and birds, skeletons, skins, geological samples and fossils.
Some of the collection data are accessible through open databases by limiting the search to the materials of the University of Jyväskylä.

Databases:
www.laji.fi
www.gbif.org

The museum staff does not actively collect samples. The collections grow especially through the donations of researchers and enthusiasts.