Kauno botanikos sodo muziejus

• Main Authors: Petrauskaitė, Vitalija, Stankevičienė, Antanina
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Lithuanian; English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Kaunas Botanical Garden of Vytautas Magnus University; Museum; Exibits; Education value; info:eu-repo/classification/udc/58; info:eu-repo/classification/udc/069; Norway; Saxifraga oppositifolia
• Online Access: http://vdu.oai.elaba.lt/documents/6125425.pdf; http://vdu.lvb.lt/VDU:ELABAPDB6125425&prefLang=en_US

The first director of Kaunas Botanical Garden prof. Konstantinas Regelis in 1924 began building the museum which at that time was a teaching exposure of Botany Cabinet. From the time exhibits remained only cones which prof. K. Regelis brought from Switzerland (Saxifraga oppositifolia, Abies nordmanniana), in 1930 from Brazil (Araucaria araucana, Anona sp.) and from Norway (Cladonia alpestris). The museum exhibits were also filled by other researches of Botanical Garden: K. Grybauskas, prof. T. Ivanauskas, prof. A. Minkevičius, prof. J. Dagys. In 1958, from Michurinsk were purchased fruit moulages, among them – nowdefunct Lithuanian aquatic plant Trapa natans. Of high educational, cognitive value is the herbarium, in particular – the two herbarium books with shrubs, trees, herbaceous plant samples collected in Caucasus by unknown author in 1888-1889. The text was written in Polish supplying Latin, in some places Russian, plant names. Currently the museum of Kaunas Botanical Garden of Vytautas Magnus University has a herbarium of more than 1708 exhibits (excl. herbarium).