A gyűjtemény leírása
The collection has been re-founded several times since 1889. Today’s collection was founded after World War II with national and international help and its own collecting. Today it is close to three hundred thousand specimens. Our collection area is Pécs, Baranya County and Southern Transdanubia. Its most notable units are:
- the butterfly collection of Miklós Nattán, - the Central European Trichoptera collection,
- the 3rd national collection of bird eggs and nests,
- from the fossil materials, the almost complete skeleton of the “Mammut of Pécs” and the footprint of the Komlosaurus.
The collection has been divided into smaller units according to taxonomy and disciplines: herbarium and fungi; rock (geology) and mineral; fossil collections, collections of vertebrate and invertebrates, including an insect collection that has been further subdivided according to insect orders, it also has a smaller exota subunit from abroad, a collection of Mollusca and sea snails, shells, bird eggs and nests.