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The Vivarium is home to birds known for their colorful plumage and distinct personalities, each displaying a unique charm.

The invertebrate collection includes species such as the red knee tarantula, stick insect, and giant thorny stick insect.

The fish collection is captivating, including species such as the Oscar, striped cichlid, green swordtail, zebrafish, neon tetra, and spotted hoplo.

The amphibian collection includes species such as the green poison frog, the African clawed frog, and the axolotl.

The snake, lizard, and turtle collections of the BBU Vivarium are impressive and diverse, offering visitors a glimpse at some fascinating species from around the world and a unique opportunity to learn about the adaptations of these reptiles.

This collection comprises a series of documents that offer a fascinating insight into the historian’s work, as well as a glimpse into the world he lived in.

Taken at various moments, especially on anniversaries, the photographs in the museum’s collection include a series of snapshots showing David Prodan.

This collection includes a series of diplomas and medals awarded to historian David Prodan by cultural institutions, various public institutions, as well as national and international public figures.

The Ellenzék Collection comprises 23 digitized excerpts from the Cluj newspaper Ellenzék, covering antisemitic measures from 1940 to 1944.

The Lusztig Collection consists of 37 documents on the history and fate of the Lusztig family during the Holocaust.

This collection comprises 13 books, primarily published in Transylvania during the interwar period and World War II. The majority of the books are works published by Hungarian-speaking Jewish writers.

The Prof. Dr. Vasile Bogdan Collection contains nine original documents donated by Prof. Dr. Vasile Bogdan of Babeș-Bolyai University.

The Avraham/Erwin Ohlbaum Collection comprises two exhibits: ID card number 446, Romanian Architects Association, and Prayers in Hebrew, written by Áron Ohlbaum based on his memories.

The outdoor collection is on display in the inner courtyard of Babeș-Bolyai University, at the entrance to the Museum of Paleontology and Stratigraphy.

The type collection is the most valuable from a scientific perspective, as it brings together fossil species (plants and animals) that are new to science.

The Transylvanian Basin Collection is unique in Romania because it features a fossil inventory that illustrates the geological evolution of the Transylvanian Basin over several million years, dating back to the Jurassic period (approximately 190 million years ago).

The Taxonomic Paleontology Collection documents the evolution of life across the major geological eras, from the Paleozoic to the Cenozoic, spanning over 500 million years.

This collection comprises over 30 samples from caves in Romania, some of which are very rare.

The zeolite collection from the Apuseni Mountains is an “author’s” collection created by Prof. Dr. Ioan Bedelean as a result of his doctoral thesis.

The collection of historical scientific instruments comprises a valuable assortment of devices used in mineralogy and crystallography from the late 19th century to the present day, including goniometers.

The collection represents the contribution of the Romanian soil to the universal mineralogical heritage.

The macle collection is an educational collection with over 30 “twin crystals”, i.e., symmetrical concretions belonging to the same mineral species.

The Romanian gem collection is the most comprehensive and diverse in the country, comprising approximately 3,500 fine stones, most of which have undergone processing.

The native gold collection is the third-largest and most diverse in Romania. It comprises approximately 500 samples of free gold from Romania and from abroad.

The meteorite collection is the largest of its kind in Romania, with over 225 samples of various types of meteorites (stony, iron, or stony-iron), including small fragments of lunar and Martian meteorites, as well as terrestrial material formed upon impact with meteorites, such as tektites and impactites.

Vasile Vicol taught biology and geography at various schools in Mureș County and, later, in Târgu Mureș. He started collecting, systematizing, and researching Lepidoptera as early as 1957.

Marg-Wladimir Manoliu was born in 1940 in Solca, Suceava County. He was a professional engineer, a nature lover, and a very passionate butterfly collector since childhood. He passed away in 2019. His descendants donated his impressive butterfly collection to the Zoological Museum.

The diversity of flora and fauna around his native town stimulated the interest of the young Béla Kis for nature and especially for insects. He attended Bethlen Gábor High School in his hometown. In 1946, Béla Kis began his studies at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Bolyai University in Cluj (today’s Babeș-Bolyai University). In 1950, after graduating from the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Béla Kis became an assistant at the Zoology Department of the university. He started his scientific work in 1951.

In 1951, Lucia Dușa became curator of the Zoology Museum at Victor Babeș University and later served as chief curator until her retirement in 1985.

The distinguished coleopterologist René Jeannel was a French entomologist. Between 1920 and 1930, he worked as deputy director of the Institute of Speleology, founded by Emil Racoviță – the first institute of its kind worldwide.

The collection comprises about 600 spiders of 159 species.

It is one of the oldest collections of spiders in Romania. Most specimens were collected in Transylvania between 1864 and 1871. However, the collection also includes exotic species.

The herpetological collections (amphibians and reptiles) contain about 5,000 specimens, representing 45 species of amphibians and 120 species of reptiles.

Ottó Herman (1835–1914) was a naturalist, zoologist, and ethnographer. Between 1864 and 1871, as an employee of the Zoological Museum in Cluj, he began to study spiders, birds, and fish.

This is the oldest Lepidoptera collection in Romania. The first catalog was published in 1850.

The Zoological Museum’s oology collection (bird eggs) contains about 3,500 pieces. The collection includes the oldest specimens in the museum, collected in 1848.

The Zoological Museum’s osteological collection comprises 898 specimens, primarily consisting of skulls.

The Zoological Museum of Babeș-Bolyai University has one of the oldest and most significant bird collections in Romania. It was established in 1859 and has been continually enriched with specimens to this day. The collection includes specimens of both exotic species and Romanian fauna.

The regional mineralogy collection reveals Romania’s renowned mineral wealth. It brings together approximately 1,500 mineral samples from over 70 different occurrences, representing both famous mines and surface exploitation.

This collection is the largest and most comprehensive in Romania, regarding the number of exhibits, mineral species, and occurrences (the samples’ places of origin). The …

It includes several instruments used by Cluj students and professors over time during practical seminars in physics, chemistry, biology, and other fields (such as spectrographs …

It comprises medals, seals, stamps, and ceramic objects that were awarded to Cluj professors and students or that mark significant moments in the university’s institutional …

It includes diplomas, yearbooks, student notebooks, and other materials, which provide a representative picture of the evolution and organization of the Romanian higher education system …

This collection includes vintage and more recent images of buildings that belonged and still belong to the University of Cluj (student dormitories, faculty buildings, etc.), …

These include over 500 paper and celluloid photographs illustrating significant moments in the life of Cluj University. Among the most valuable are the photographs depicting …

This collection comprises postcards issued and circulated on the territory of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire during the First World War. They complement Alexandru Duma’s drawings, …

The museum also holds some authentic military equipment from the First World War, which are included in the permanent exhibition.

Visitors can consult the complete collection of Alexandru Duma’s drawings on the digital platform inside the museum.

The two sketchbooks and a set of detached sheets totaling 109 drawings and sketches by Alexandru Duma were donated to Babeș-Bolyai University by Professor Tudor Porumb, a relative of the artist.