Zoology Museum

The Zoology Museum is turning 50!

EXHIBITION CLOSURES

The Sir Duncan Rice Library Gallery and the Zoology Museum will be closed indefinitely. We're sorry to have had to close, but the health of our students, staff and visitors is the most important thing right now.

We will keep you updated on when we plan to reopen.

Thanks to all of our visitors for your support.

More information here on how to stay safe: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/staffnet/working-here/coronavirus/

Opening Hours Monday – Friday 9am-5pm, booking is not required and free for all to visit.

Zoology Museum

The museum’s displays are worldwide in scope, from protozoa to the great whales, including taxidermy, skeletal material, study skins, fluid-preserved specimens and models.

Zoology Museum

Visitors are warmly welcomed to the museum, and there is no charge for admission, though we ask that children are accompanied by a responsible adult.

Zoology Museum

If you have enquiries, offers of donations or specimens for identification, please contact the museums before you visit.

Zoology Museum

Please note that as car parking on campus is restricted to University staff, however there is nearby street parking, pay-and-display, that museum visitors can use.

Improving the Zoology Museum

Funding of £53,012 from the Museum Recognition Capital Fund will improve the displays of the Zoology Museum. The Zoology Building foyer is to be tidied and made into a more welcoming space, without compromising its function as the entrance to an academic building. Work will include new signage an an exhibition titled ‘Aberdeen Naturalists’. The upper gallery of the museum will be tidied up and de-cluttered of cases, but the main focus of the project will be in the lower gallery.

This gallery is laid out in a taxonomic fashion pretty much as it was when it was completed in the 1970s. The project aims to preserve the museum’s original taxonomic organisation with some tidying up of case layout, and will add an introductory display about evolutionary biology to make the interpretation of the collections more accessible. There will also be improvements to the lighting of the galleries and display cases and storage to improve the care of the collection.

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