The museum was founded in December 2025 within Atatürk University's biodiversity research centre, and its subject is what lives in Türkiye rather than what was made here.
The collection gathers endangered, endemic and rare species: plants, insects, birds, fish and mammals, together with fossils, taxidermy and models of prehistoric animals including dinosaurs.
It has its own building on the university campus in Yakutiye.
Visiting hours
- Visiting hours
- 08:30 - 16:30 on weekdays, closed at weekends
When to go
- Climate
- Across Erzurum as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from -9.1 °C in January to 19.6 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in July and August; rainfall is heaviest in May (73 mm) and lightest in August (18 mm). Long-term means for 1929-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
