The museum was created 1986th consolidation of Mineralogy and Petrography, Geology and Paleontology of the Croatian National Zoological Museum. Today, there are important scientific institutions. Museum holdings of more than 250 000 copies distributed in various collections. The collection of minerals and rocks keeps copies worldwide. Inside it has a significant place collection Krapina prehistoric man, the most important collection of Neanderthal in the world. Are valuable zoological collections with the representatives of Croatian fauna, the collection of endemic species of our region, and collections of exotic species. The recently established a department of the Botanical hebarijima. The museum has a rich library with 30 000 titles related to science. The permanent display are miniraloško-petrographic and zoological collections with material from the Croatian and comparative material from other parts of the world. Occasionally we organize themed exhibitions, and exhibitions related to additional scientific meetings. Museum of scientific-professional journal Physiology.