Natural History Museum and Botanical Garden news

Photo: Tormi Tuuling
Published 16.02.2022

The travelling exhibition ‘Memories of Estonian Research in the Svalbard’ will be opened at the University of Tartu Natural History Museum on 22 February, in cooperation with the Estonian Maritime Museum and the Polar Club.

On Thursday, 18 November, Academic Heritage Day is celebrated across Europe. On that occasion, the University of Tartu Museum, Natural History Museum, Botanical Garden and Library will set up a special installation in the city centre for a week.

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Published 18.10.2021

University of Tartu Natural History Museum and Botanical Garden is a partner in the Horizon 2020 project BiCIKL. Within three years, a biodiversity data center will be developed in co-operation with other partners attending the project.

Published 7.06.2021

On 7 June, the exhibition titled “Extremely Cute Cohabitation” will be opened at the University of Tartu Botanical Garden, in which four artists show their critical interpretation of human-animal interaction from the perspective of occupying space. The exhibition is also the official opening event for this year’s Nature Festival.

Published 23.04.2021
Booking Now Open for #NatSCA2021: Changing the World: Environmental Breakdown and Natural Science Collections

The NatSCA 2021 conference will take place on 27th and 28th May, online via Zoom, 9.50am-4pm BST (UTC +1). Tickets are now available through Eventbrite – see the NatSCA website for programme, tickets and further details: https://www.natsca.org/natsca-2021

Published 15.04.2021
Applicants are invited to apply for a postdoctoral researcher position in fungal systematics based at Natural History Museum (NHM), University of Oslo (UiO). The contract period is 4 years fulltime, of which 3 years (75%) are devoted to carrying out research and one year (25%) for compulsory work consisting of teaching and supervision, collection work, outreach activities and research assistance.

Published 25.02.2021

In 1804, a botany excursion was led to Finland by Professor Gottfried Albrecht Germann, the first Director of the UT Natural History Museum and of the Botanical Garden. Based on their research ON the excursion’s journal, Wolfgang Ilg, Heldur Sander and Ari T. Taponen have written a research paper about the excursion. 

Published 22.02.2021
Photo: Villu Soon

The Festival will be held on 7‒13 June 2021 at locations all over Estonia. The Festival seeks to highlight the value of urban nature as a range of diverse habitats, to develop an awareness of nature in an urban setting and to promote sustainable consumption and conduct.

Published 22.02.2021
Photo: Villu Soon

The Festival will be held on June 7‒13th 2021 at locations all over Estonia. The Festival seeks to highlight the value of urban nature as a range of diverse habitats, to develop an awareness of nature in an urban setting and to promote sustainable consumption and conduct.

Published 18.11.2020

On Wednesday, November 18th, University of Tartu Natural History Museum and Botanical Garden, together with other memory institutions of the University of Tartu, will celebrate Academic Heritage Day. The aim of which is to draw attention to both tangible and intangible heritage.

Published 11.05.2020

Published 11.05.2020

The garden is open, but the greenhouses are temporarily closed until May 1.

The garden is open every day 7-19

Museum is temporarily closed until May 1.

Now is available our latest Index seminum 2019 

Published 13.05.2019

On 15–16 May 2019, for the first time, Tartu will host an annual meeting of the Governing Board of CETAF, the Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities. The 45th meeting will bring to Tartu the heads of more than 50 natural history museums and botanical gardens, who will discuss the vulnerability of species and the importance of open data for preservation of biodiversity.

PLEASE DO NOT FEED THE BIRDS!

You are kindly asked not to feed the waterfowl (mallards and gulls) that you see in the pond at the Botanical Gardens or any of the non-migratory birds (such as crows and pigeons) you encounter on the Gardens’ premises.

Feeding the birds through all seasons harms their health and alters behaviours characteristic of the species.