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On March 25, the VU Zoological Museum was visited by the museum's patron G. Vaitiekūnas, the Director of the T. Ivanauskas Zoological Museum Ramūnas Grigonis, and his deputy Rokas Cicėnas. The main goal was to get acquainted and discuss cooperation opportunities, as well as generate ideas about hunting research expositions.

In 2022 the Vilnius University Museum of Zoology started a new cooperation partnership project with Italy and Malta called ,,pLatform for INnovation in Natural science onlinE education" (LINNEO). The project is being carried out together with the Botanical Garden of Vilnius University. Joining in the creative process is the Gedimino miesto school, they will also be the first to try the new platform.

The Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, by Resolution No. XIV-307 of 13 May 2021, declared that 2022 is declared the Year of Animal Welfare.

The Government of the Republic of Lithuania, by Resolution No. 1026 of 1 December 2021, approved the plan for the celebration of the Year of Animal Welfare in 2022, which can be found at:

On Friday (May 14), the Ministry of the Environment published a draft list of mammals permitted for keeping and breeding

On the afternoon of February 18, the Vilnius University Museum of Zoology was visited by the host of the LRT program "Daiktų istorijos", art historian Saulius Pilinkus, and journalist Edita Mildažyte. They tried to discover a story older than that recorded by Prof. T. Ivanauskas and claiming that the first stuffed animals date back to the time of mummies, and in Lithuania the oldest ones are in the Zoology Museum of Vilnius University...

On October 1, the public education project "Incredible Animals of the VU Museum of Zoology" by international volunteer from Catalonia (Spain) Alba Avila Grimalda will start, continuing the initiative to regularly introduce a new animal or group of animals that you can see when visiting the VU Museum of Zoology.

Join us on June 12th, from 12h to 13h to come explore the smart exhibition of the Zoological Museum, created using the augmented reality app HP Reveal (formerly Aurasma). The aim of the exhibition is to show the simple and at the same time impressive life of birds.

Projekto "NORDBALTIC INCUBATOR 2017" metu režisierė Miglė Kriaučiūnaitė sukūrė dokumentinį filmą "Privatus miesto paukščių gyvenimas". Filmavimai vyko ir VU Zoologijos muziejuje, o apie paukščius čia pasakojo Gyvybės mokslų centro Biomokslų instituto Zoologijos katedros dėstytojas Saulis Skuja.

During the project "NORDBALTIC INCUBATOR 2017" film director Miglė Kriaučiūnaitė created a documentary called "The Private Life of City Birds". Filming also took place in the VU Museum of Zoology and Saulis Skuja, a lecturer at the Department of Zoology of the Institute of Biosciences of the Life Sciences Center, spoke about birds in the movie.

As part of the Nord Baltic Incubator '17 project, a creative workshop was opened at the VU Zoology Museum — a documentary film about animals living in the city is being created.

In June 2017, the Lithuanian Theatre Union, supported by the Press, radio and television foundation in the project "10+1 temų apie teatrą su...“ (10+1 topics about theatre with...) intervieved the most famous veteran of the Lithuanina theatre scene and movie actor Gediminas Girdvainis

The one giving such a gift to their Alma Mater is Physicist Gediminas Vaitiekūnas

Do you know which plant based oil is the most popular? How many liters of water are needed to make a single pair of jeans? Which plants plantation is around the size of The United Kingdom? And most importantly, do you know what products are the most harmful to nature?

Customs officers have handed over 17 bottles containing snakes, cobras and scorpions, which were confiscated from passengers at Lithuanian airports over the past decade, to scientists at the Zoological Museum of the Life Sciences Center of Vilnius University. Often, travelers fascinated by exotic or unusual-looking souvenirs buy them as gifts for their loved ones without thinking or asking whether they are made from endangered animals.

You can find a more detailed description on the Facebook account of the Customs of the Republic of Lithuania.

We would like to thank the people thanks to whom the museum's exposition and funds were replenished with new exhibits in 2015-2016:

• Doc. E.Bukelskis for his personal collection of roe deer and deer antlers, and wild boar skulls;
• Prof. Habil.Dr. V.Laurinavičius for the Cypraea tigris shell with cameo;
• Dr. Egidijus Kazlauskas for the collection of spider larvae and their fragments;
• To Maris Maniušius, director of UAB "The Magic", and his assistant Aiste Liansbergaitė for the valuable book "Handbook of the Mammals of the World, Volume 1: Carnivores By: Don E Wilson (Editor), Russell A Mittermeier (Editor) Publisher: Lynx Edicions";
• to biology teacher Mykolas Vytautas Sakalauskas for his personal collection of natural curiosities and shells, collected between 1968 and 2016.

 The unfortunate death of a great eagle-owl chick, for which we collected donations to make a stuffed animal at the Zoological Museum, has already returned from the taxidermy masters and you can see it in the exhibition (and in the photo here).

The unfortunate death of the great eagle-owl, for which we collected donations at the Zoological Museum to make a stuffed animal, will be handed over to taxidermists.