Natural History Museum

It has existed under its present name since 1972, when the Zoological Museum established in 1814 merged with the Herbarium Collection founded in 1821. Its herbarium collection is one of the largest in Europe, and botanical and zoological specimens are ranked second in Poland in scientific value and number. The Natural History Museum has, among others, one of the largest global collections of ichneumons, corals, polychaetes, the most extensive collection of slugs in the world and the largest collection of vertebrate skeletons in Poland.