Fungi

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Mushrooms and lichen are neither plants nor animals. They aren’t difficult to preserve. They aren’t pressed; instead they are dried and stored in cardboard boxes or paper bags. The species is often identified by its pollen, so it is important that the specimens don’t get mixed up.

The largest collection of lichen in the Porvoo Museum collection is from the 1940s and 50s. A teacher in the Porvoo Lyceum, Börje Olsoni collected primarily plants, but he also preserved hundreds of specimens of lichen. He even inspired his student Karl-Gustav Widén, whose collection of about 350 specimens of lichen is also in the Porvoo Museum collection.

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Plants

The Porvoo Museum natural history collection includes several herbaria. The vast majority of the plant specimens are preserved pressed and attached onto pages.

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Invertebrates

Within the Porvoo Museum natural history collection, the largest percentage of the specimens are insects. And similarly the largest percentage of the insect collection is butterflies.

Vertebrates

The Porvoo Museum collection of Finnish invertebrates contains both taxidermied specimens as well as specimens preserved for science.

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Geological Collection

The geological collections contain minerals and different types of rock from all around Finland. The specimens from abroad contain both cut and uncut semi-precious stones, as well as fossils.

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