Museums & Archive

The Zoological Museum

Trinity College, Dublin 2
Tel:  01 896 1679
Fax: 01 677 8094
Email: mlinnie@tcd.ie
Website: ^{http://www.naturalscience.tcd.ie/museums/zoology}

Open to visitors throughout the year (by prior arrangement) from 10am - 4pm.

The Zoological Museum is located on the University campus on the first floor of the Zoology Building (Department of Zoology).

The collection comprises over 20,000 specimens, representing all the animal groups from tiny single-celled organisms to mounted specimens of elephants and rhinos.

The wide diversity of animal life represented in the collection is a rarity in itself and unsurpassed in Irish (and most British) universities. Today, the museum remains a vital, non-renewable teaching research facility for students, staff and visitors. It contains many examples of extinct and endangered species including Ireland's Last Great Auk (extinct 1844), Tasmanian Wolf, Passenger Pigeon, Kakapo, Mammoth and Giant Irish Deer remains. Many of the specimens on display are over 200 years old. The insect collections contain over 12,000 specimens and are of considerable national and international significance.The collection is further enhanced by over fifty glass models of marine-life, hand-made by the world renowned Blaschka family (c. 1860).

The museum is open to the public by appointment. Please contact the Curator, Dr Martyn Linnie for further information.