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Visiting address:
Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 13, 00100 Helsinki
Postal address:
PL17, 00014 University of Helsinki
Phone for the ticket desk: 02941 28800 during Museum opening hours.
Phone for the ticket desk: 02941 24455 during greenhouse opening hours.
Phone for the ticket desk: 02941 28870 during garden opening hours.
General inquiries and feedback on Luomus public attractions:
The Public Engagement Unit is in charge of the planning and implementation of the science and environmental education operations of Luomus together with the relevant subject experts. The Unit Is responsible for Luomus’ operations serving or targeting the general public, including museum exhibitions, public outreach at the botanic gardens, guided tours, event production, marketing and customer service.
Visiting address:
Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 13, 00100 Helsinki
Postal address:
PL17, 00014 University of Helsinki
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The team maintains Luomus’ public attractions during their opening hours and provides multichannel customer service. The team ensures customers are safe and comfortable, provides advice at the ticket desk and in the exhibition facilities, and maintains the general cleanliness of the facilities and ensures all equipment in public spaces is in working order. The Customer Service Team participates in the maintenance of exhibitions and public facilities as well the organisation of public events. At the Kaisaniemi greenhouses the team is responsible for both ticket sales and the small gift shop.
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The team is responsible for planning and producing Luomus’ content for the public together with the other teams at Luomus. The duties of the Exhibitions and Learning Team include planning, producing and maintaining the exhibitions at the Museum of Natural History; audience content at the botanic gardens; curating temporary exhibitions produced by external institutions; planning content for the Luomus guided tours, training guides as well as coordinating and developing guide operations; public events at Luomus and marketing Luomus and its public attractions.
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The team consists of expert guides who provide pedagogically designed guided tours tailored for various target groups in the public attractions of Luomus.
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The Zoology Unit is responsible for the zoological collections of Luomus and their maintenance, the preparation of collection specimens as well as research and teaching relating to vertebrate and invertebrate animals. The unit is also in charge of the monitoring studies of the birds and bats of Finland while coordinating Finnish bird ringing activities.
Visiting address:
Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 13, 00100 Helsinki
Postal address:
PL17, 00014 University of Helsinki
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The team is responsible for the maintenance of the Museum’s
Studies conducted within the team relate to topics such as the systematics and distribution history of birds, fish, crustaceans, clams and spiders, the distribution and biology of bats as well as the methods and theory of biodiversity research.
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The team is responsible for the maintenance, accrual, specimen lending and digitisation of the
The team includes researchers, postdoctoral students, technical staff and researchers emeriti. The research conducted within the team is varied, with topics ranging from insect taxonomy, systematics, palaeontology, endangered species and their diversity and shifts in diversity. Research subjects have included grass moths, hoverflies, flat-footed flies as well as the evolutionary history of Lepidoptera in general.
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The Team is in charge of organising
The Monitoring Team includes the Ringing Centre, which coordinates all bird ringing in Finland. The duties of the Ringing Centre include the maintenance of data registers, the selection and training of ringers as well as the quality assurance of ringing work. A key mission is to exchange information and otherwise maintain contact with ringers, ring recoverers, international ringing centres, the European Union for Bird Ringing (EURING), researchers who use monitoring data, government authorities, the media and the general public, both in Finland and abroad. The Ringing Centre promotes research conducted with the help of bird ringing by publishing summaries and analyses of bird ringing and ring recovery data.
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The Luomus Molecular Laboratory is equipped with state-of-the-art genetic research instruments. The laboratory features workspaces for DNA extraction as well as both pre- and post-PCR work. There is also a separate cleanroom which is primarily reserved for processing historical materials.
The laboratory facilities are available for University staff and partners, and we can also provide training on request.
The Botany and Mycology Unit is responsible for maintaining the collections of vascular plants, algae, moss, lichen and fungi as well as research and education relating to these collections. The unit also produces distribution surveys and nomenclature of Finnish vascular plants. Additionally, the unit maintains the botanic gardens in Kaisaniemi and Kumpula and manages the seed bank operations of endangered wild plants.
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Botanical Museum and Kaisaniemi Botanic Garden:
Kaisaniemenranta 2, 00170 Helsinki
Kumpula Botanic Garden:
Jyrängöntie 2, 00560 Helsinki
Postal address:
PL 7, 00014 University of Helsinki
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The Vascular Plants Team is responsible for the
The team has an extensive cooperation network of professionals and hobbyists, and its work is used extensively in both basic research and a variety of other applications. The research focuses on the taxonomy and systematics of vascular plants along with their ecology and conservation biology.
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The Garden Team maintains
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The Geosciences Unit is responsible for the collections of minerals, rocks and fossils at Luomus, their maintenance and research as well as the field of geosciences in general. The team also provides university-level education and dating determinations for research purposes and upon commission.
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Laboratory of Chronology: Kumpula Campus, Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2, 00560 Helsinki
Geology: Kumpula Botanic Garden, Jyrängöntie 2, 00560 Helsinki
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Laboratory of Chronology: PL 64, 00014 University of Helsinki
Geology: PL 44, 00014 University of Helsinki
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The Chronology Team has three primary tasks: radiocarbon determinations, luminescence dating and stable isotope determinations.
The team participates in research actively and provides commercial determination services. The work of the Chronology Team is highly multidisciplinary and it cooperates with several partners in Finland and internationally.
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The Geology Team is tasked with maintaining the mineral, rock and fossil collections and conducting research in
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The Biodiversity Informatics Unit offers IT services for data management and the digitisation of specimen collections. In addition to Luomus researchers, the unit serves an extensive network of partners through
The unit conducts cooperation with Finnish museums of natural history, significant national institutions that process biodiversity information as well as government authorities. It also develops services for nature hobbyists and for monitoring studies. The unit participates in the work of international biodiversity informatics networks.
Visiting address:
Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 13, 00100 Helsinki
Postal address:
PL17, 00014 University of Helsinki
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The Species Information Team is responsible for stakeholder relations of the Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility (FinBIF), serves as the link within Luomus between FinBIF and the other units and teams, and plans services needed in the administration of biodiversity information. The team also manages FinBIF’s biodiversity information content and its quality, ensures data uniformity, promotes the usability of the data together with the ICT Team, supports the ICT Team in FinBIF’s data management, serves as FinBIF’s helpdesk and conducts communications for FinBIF together with University Services.
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The ICT Team is responsible for the development and maintenance of the information systems of Luomus and the Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility (FinBIF). It maintains the tools for nomenclature management, promotes the accessibility and shared use of information on organisms, and is responsible, together with the Digitisation Team, for the quick transfer of data generated through collections digitisation into use viaFinBIF’s laji.fi portal. The team also collaborates in national and international networks in the relevant fields. The team manages the technical development and maintenance of the Luomus website together with University Services and communicates with the University’s IT Centre. The members of the ICT Team are software sector professionals.
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The Digitisation Team is responsible for the digitisation of Luomus’ scientific collections, doing so in cooperation with the teams responsible for the relevant collections. It supports the ICT Team in the rapid transfer of the data generated through collections digitisation into use through the portal of the Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility (finBIF), and ensures the efficient and appropriate use of digitisation resources with the goal of digitising all collections as quickly as possible. It also monitors international developments in its field and participates in national and international digitisation projects. Many members of the Digitisation Team also work in another team under the Zoology Unit or the Botany and Mycology Unit.
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Our research focuses on conservation and supporting land use decisions that promote nature conservation. We develop tools for combating biodiversity loss together with national and international research partners. We also work in close cooperation with Finnish governmental environmental administration to ensure that decisions made regarding nature and its conservation are based on research knowledge as much as possible.