September 02 / 2011
VU herbarium included into the UNESCO List
The Vilnius University herbarium collection has been included into the Lithuanian National Register of the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme.
The university has announced that the Old Vilnius University herbarium collection has been recognized as the documentary heritage of regional significance.
The Vilnius University herbarium is one of the oldest herbaria stored by the Eastern European universities, and is among the top ten oldest herbaria in the world.
The launch of the laboratory has coincided with the origins of botany in the Lithuanian university; it is associated with the arrival of Jean-Emmanuel Gilibert, the world-renowned French botanist, to Lithuania.
The Old Vilnius University herbarium collection was accumulated in the 1st half of the 19th c. and contains approximately 15,000 herbarium sheets. This is one of the oldest collections of this type in the Eastern Europe, and the oldest collection in Lithuania.
All specimens of the Old Vilnius University herbarium collection are valuable and unique; they reveal the development of the 19th c. botany in Lithuania and the world.
Alongside the specimens, the herbarium collection also displays the original hand-written labels made by famous scientists.
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