Helsinki Botanical Museum

The University of Helsinki Botanical Museum is part of the Finnish Museum of Natural History (Luomus) and houses specimens from around the globe, particularly from the Nordic countries, North America and the cool and temperate zones of Asia. Prominent regional collections are from China, Papua New Guinea and Patagonia, among others. The collections contain tens of thousands of globally valuable type specimens. The collections are organised into five groups of organisms: vascular plants, bryophytes, fungi, lichens and algae. Most of these have been further divided into two sections, of which East Fennoscandia (Herbarium Fennoscandiae orientalis) encompasses Finland and its neighbouring areas (Russian Karelia, the Kola Peninsula and the western parts of the Leningrad Oblast), and the general collection (Herbarium Generale) covers the rest of the globe.