The Zoological Museum is integrated in the Babes-Bolyai University Patrimony and it consists of several scientific animal collections, currently containing over 300,000 exhibition pieces. The exhibition is accessible to the public, to biology students and to specialists. The exhibition pieces are preserved in different ways: stuffed, dried, in preserving liquids and as skeletons. The pieces are arranged in phylogenetic order, reflecting the evolution of the animal world from simple to complex, and as dioramas, displaying the interrelations between the species that form the animal world.
Thematic insectariums are also exhibited, showing the variety of butterfly sizes in wet and dry seasons, the match of sizes and color between the butterflies and the environment in which they live in, and mimesis at butterflies and warbles, as well as stages of the formation of the silk wire at the silk butterfly (Bombix mori).
There are showed aspects of the thicket birds’ life with the types of nests that these birds are building, as well as the ensemble image with the fauna of the Bărăgan Plain. The cabinet with humming birds draws the attention through the variation of the changing colors according to the light that falls onto their bodies; in the focused image of the area in which the bigwigs (Oriolus oriolus) are exhibited, one can see the difference of color between the male and female, the place where the nest is built, and the process of egg-laying.
Another representative ensemble image shows the struggle for survival in winter in a forest form our region and it represents an explicit piece of well documented space.
Entry fee:
Adults: 3 RON
Children: 1.5 RON
Students: 1 RON
Biology students, military personnel, disabled: free entrance
Schedule
Monday – Friday: from 9.00 to 15.00 Saturday, Sunday: from 10.00 to 14.00
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