Zoological Museum of the University of Athens

General description

The Museum hosts rich collections of authentic organisms, enabling visitors to observe and explore species, the biological processes that govern them, Biodiversity and Evolution. The Museum's educational programmes are organized and are aimed at primary and secondary school children. Museums are now recognised as places of non-formal education, offering educational programmes that help students to understand science. In particular, Natural History Museums, like Zoology Museums, have rich collections of authentic specimens of organisms. 

Activities

Educational Programmes of the Museum of Zoology

These collections allow students to observe and compare different species, and enable them to explore biological processes related to Biodiversity and Evolution. In this way, the exhibits can contribute to the understanding of basic biological concepts, always in collaboration with the school.

Important exhibits

• Giants and dwarfs with atrophied wings.
• Polar bear.
• The wondrous world of beetles.
• The winged dove.
• Coral.
• Rhomboid squid.
• African Elephant.
• Asian Black Bear.
• The most poisonous animal.
• African penguin.
• Polar landscape.
• Golden eagle.
• Wildcat.
• Vulture.
• Crocodiles.
• Snow gulls.
• Mediterranean seal.
• Great white shark.
• Rhesus or Wolf.