The Biodiversity Museum of Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa University, TOGÜ-Biyoçeşitlilik Müzesi, is built around a scientific insect collection: more than a thousand species are on show, from crop pests such as the cherry fruit fly and the potato beetle to beneficial insects, together with a few reptile specimens. The specimens were collected across Türkiye by staff and students of the university's Faculty of Agriculture, and the collection serves teaching and for identifying and comparing species in research.
Visits are arranged in advance and follow a set programme. Specimens and display cases must not be touched, food and drink are not allowed inside, and photography and filming need permission from the staff.
The museum is on the university's campus at Taşlıçiftlik, in the Vocational School building on Kampüs Kümeevleri Sokağı. The Ministry of Education lists it among its out-of-school learning venues, as a place where pupils study ecosystems, the variety of living things and how scientific research is done from real specimens, and links visits to primary and middle-school science units on habitats and biodiversity.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Tokat as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 2 °C in January to 22.5 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in May (59 mm) and lightest in August (9 mm). Long-term means for 1929-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
