List of herbaria in Europe

This is a list of herbaria in Europe, organized first by region where the herbarium is located (using the United Nations geoscheme for Europe), then within each region by size of the collection. For other continents, see List of herbaria.

Eastern Europe

The tables below list herbaria located in Eastern Europe as defined by the United Nations geoscheme for Europe.

Black Sea

The following table includes herbaria located in countries on the Black Sea, including Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania, and Ukraine.

**Herbaria in countries on the Black Sea**
Name	No. Specimens^[1]	Abbr.	Country	City	Website
"Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University	250,000	I	Romania	Iași
Herbarium Bulgarian Academy of Science	160,000	SOM	Bulgaria	Sofia	[1]
Herbarium Agricultural University of Plovdiv	150,000	SOA	Bulgaria	Plovdiv	[2]
Herbarium Sofia University	106 000	SO	Bulgaria	Sofia

Czech Republic

The following table includes herbaria located in the Czech Republic.

**Herbaria in Czech Republic**
Name	No. Specimens^[1]	Abbr.	Country	City	Website
Charles University in Prague	2,200,000	PRC	Czech Republic	Prague	[3]

Hungary

The following table includes herbaria located in Hungary.

**Herbaria in Hungary**
Name	No. Specimens^[1]	Abbr.	Country	City	Website
Hungarian Natural History Museum - Department of Botany	2,000,000	BP	Hungary	Budapest	[4]
Budakeszi Herbarium - International Dendrological Foundation	250,000	BK	Hungary	Budakeszi	[5]

Poland

The following table includes herbaria located in Poland.

**Herbaria in Poland**
Name	No. Specimens^[1]	Abbr.	Country	City	Website
Władysław Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences	800,000	IB PAN	Poland	Kraków	[6]

Russia

The following table includes herbaria located in European Russia.

**Herbaria in Russia**
Name	No. Specimens^[1]	Abbr.	Country	City	Website
Komarov Botanical Institute	7,160,000	LE	Russia	St. Petersburg	[7]
Moscow State University	1,011,253	MW	Russia	Moscow	[8]
Main Botanical Garden, Russia	700,000 (644,337 mounted)	MHA	Russia	Moscow	[9]
Saint Petersburg University	700,000 (280,000 mounted)	LECB	Russia	Saint Petersburg	[10]
N. I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry	380,000 (179,000 mounted)	WIR	Russia	Saint Petersburg	[11]
Southern Federal University	350,000 (280,000 mounted)	RV	Russia	Rostov-on-Don	[12]
Komi Scientific Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ural Department	295,600	SYKO	Russia	Syktyvkar, Komi Republic	[13] [14]
Saint Petersburg S. M. Kirov Forestry Academy, I. P. Borodin Herbarium	200,000	KFTA	Russia	Saint Petersburg	[15], [16]

Ukraine

National Herbarium of Ukraine (KW)^[2]^[3]

Northern Europe

The tables below list herbaria located in Northern Europe as defined by the United Nations geoscheme for Europe: Ireland, the British Isles, Baltic states, Scandinavia, and Iceland.

Baltic states

The following table includes herbaria located in the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

**Herbaria in the Baltic states**
Name	No. Specimens^[1]	Abbr.	Country	City	Website
Estonian University of Life Sciences	336,000	TAA	Estonia	Tartu
University of Tartu	324,000	TU	Estonia	Tartu
Vilnius University	300,000	WI	Lithuania	Vilnius
University of Latvia, Riga	176,000	RIG	Latvia	Riga
University of Latvia, Salaspils	175,000	LATV	Latvia	Salaspils
Institute of Botany, Lithuania	130,000	BILAS	Lithuania	Vilnius
Estonian Museum of Natural History	100,000	TAM	Estonia	Tallinn
Tallinn Botanic Garden	85,000	TALL	Estonia	Tallinn	[17]
National Botanic Garden of Latvia	50,000	HBA	Latvia	Salaspils

Britain & Ireland

The following table includes herbaria located in Britain & Ireland.

**Herbaria in the British Isles**
Name	No. Specimens^[1]	Abbr.	Country	City	Website
Kew Herbarium	7,000,000	K	UK	Kew, England	[18]
Natural History Museum, London	5,200,000	BM	UK	London, England	[19]
Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh	2,000,000	E	UK	Edinburgh, Scotland	[20]
University of Cambridge	1,000,000	CGE	UK	Cambridge, England	[21]
University of Manchester	1,000,000	MANCH	UK	Manchester, England	[22]
National Botanic Gardens, Ireland	600,000	DBN	Ireland	Dublin
National Museums & Galleries of Wales	550,000	NMW	UK	Cardiff, Wales	[23]
Fielding-Druce Herbarium, University of Oxford	500,000	OXF	UK	Oxford, England	[24]
University of Reading	400,000	RNG	UK	Reading, England	[25]
CABI Bioscience UK Centre	385,000	IMI	UK	Surrey, England	[26]
World Museum Liverpool	350,000	LIV	UK	Liverpool, England
Daubeny Herbarium, University of Oxford	300,000	FHO	UK	Oxford, England	[27]
Trinity College	230,000	TCD	Ireland	Dublin
University of Birmingham	150,000	BIRM	UK	Birmingham, England
Royal Horticultural Society (RHS Garden Wisley)	140,000	WSY	UK	Wisley, England
University of Leicester	125,000	LTR	UK	Leicester, England
University of Aberdeen	120,000	ABD	UK	Aberdeen, Scotland
South London Botanical Institute	100,000	SLBI	UK	London, England
Nottingham Natural History Museum	91,000	NOT	UK	Nottingham, England
Leicestershire Museums	90,000	LSR	UK	Leicester, England
British Antarctic Survey	40,000	AAS	UK	Cambridge, England	[28]
Linnean Society	14,000^[4]	LINN	UK	London, England	[29]
Derby Museum and Art Gallery	8,000	DBY	UK	Derby, England	[30]

Nordic countries

The following table includes herbaria located in the Nordic countries:

**Herbaria in Scandinavia**
Name	No. Specimens^[1]	Abbr.	Country	City	Website
Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet)	4,400,000	S	Sweden	Stockholm	[31]
University of Helsinki	3,000,000	H	Finland	Helsinki	[32]
Uppsala University	3,000,000	UPS	Sweden	Uppsala	[33]
University of Copenhagen	2,510,000	C	Denmark	Copenhagen	[34]
Botanical Museum, Lund	2,500,000	LD	Sweden	Lund	[35]
Botanical Museum, Oslo	1,800,000	O	Norway	Oslo	[36]
Göteborg University	1,600,000	GB	Sweden	Göteborg
University of Turku	932,000	TUR	Finland	Turku	[37]
University of Aarhus	700,000	AAU	Denmark	Aarhus
University of Bergen	700,000	BG	Norway	Bergen
University of Oulu	500,000	OULU	Finland	Oulu
Norwegian University of Science and Technology	430,000	TRH	Norway	Trondheim
University of Tromsø	320,000	TROM	Norway	Tromsø
Kuopio Natural History Museum	253,000	KUO	Finland	Kuopio
University of Jyväskylä	200,000	JYV	Finland	Jyväskylä
Icelandic Institute of Natural History	170,000	ICEL	Iceland	Reykjavík
Umeå University	170,000	UME	Sweden	Umeå
Biological Museum, Oskarshamn	155,000	OHN	Sweden	Oskarshamn
Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University	90,000	CP	Denmark	Copenhagen
Icelandic Institute of Natural History, Akureyri Division	64,000	AMNH	Iceland	Akureyri

Southern Europe

The tables below list herbaria located in Southern Europe as defined by the United Nations geoscheme for Europe.

Balkans

The following table includes herbaria located in the western and southern Balkans, including Albania, Greece and nations formerly part of Yugoslavia.

**Herbaria in the Balkans**
Name	No. Specimens^[1]	Abbr.	Country	City	Website
Herbarium of the Balkan Peninsula, Natural History Museum	490,000	BEO	Serbia	Belgrade
Goulandris Natural History Museum	180,000	ATH	Greece	Kifissia
Herbarium Croaticum, University of Zagreb	180,000	ZA	Croatia	Zagreb
University of Belgrade	150,000	BEOU	Serbia	Belgrade
University of Ljubljana	150,000	LJU	Slovenia	Ljubljana
University of Patras	150,000	UPA	Greece	Patras
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens	117,000	ATHU	Greece	Athens
Zemaljski Muzej Bosne I. Herzegovine	110,000	SARA	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo
Herbarium Ivo and Marija Horvat, University of Zagreb	78,000	ZAHO	Croatia	Zagreb
University of Novi Sad	60,000	BUNS	Serbia	Novi Sad
Prirodoslovni Muzej Slovenije	50,000	LJM	Slovenia	Ljubljana
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki	30,000	TAU	Greece	Thessaloniki
Rudjer Boskovic Institute	20,000	ADRZ	Croatia	Zagreb
Croatian Mycological Society	20,000	CNF	Croatia	Zagreb	[38]
Herbar Biokovskog Podrucja, Institut Planina i More	20,000	MAKAR	Croatia	Makarska
Agricultural University of Athens	15,000	ACA	Greece	Athens

Italy

The following table includes herbaria located in Italy, including Sicily and Sardinia.

**Herbaria in Italy**
Name	No. Specimens^[1]	Abbr.	Country	City	Website
Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università	3,650,000	FI	Italy	Florence
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza	1,120,000	RO	Italy	Rome
Università degli Studi di Torino	1,000,000	TO	Italy	Torino
Herbarium Mediterraneum Panormitanum	500,000	PAL	Italy	Palermo, Sicily	[39]
Università degli Studi di Padova	300,000	PAD	Italy	Padua
Università di Pisa	300,000	PI	Italy	Pisa	[40]
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale	270,000	VER	Italy	Verona
Università di Camerino	250,000	CAME	Italy	Camerino
Università di Catania	200,000	CAT	Italy	Catania, Sicily	[41]
Centro Studi Erbario Tropicale, Università degli Studi di Firenze	200,000	FT	Italy	Florence
Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali	200,000	TR	Italy	Trento, Trentino	[42]
Università degli Studi di Trieste	200,000	TSB	Italy	Trieste
Università di Pavia	180,000	PAV	Italy	Pavia
Università Degli Studi di Napoli Federico II	170,000	NAP	Italy	Naples, Napoli
Centro Ricerche Floristiche Marche	150,000	PESA	Italy	Pesaro
Università di Bologna	130,000	BOLO	Italy	Bologna	[43]
Museo Friulano di Storia Naturale	130,000	MFU	Italy	Udine
Università degli Studi di Roma Tre	118,000	URT	Italy	Rome
Università di Sassari	100,000	SS	Italy	Sassari, Sardinia
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale	100,000	TSM	Italy	Trieste
Università degli Studi di Cagliari	80,000	CAG	Italy	Cagliari, Sardinia	[44]
Università di Genova	75,000	GE	Italy	Genoa
Università di Siena	75,000	SIENA	Italy	Siena	[45]
Università degli Studi di Milano	60,000	MI	Italy	Milan	[46]
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria	55,000	GDOR	Italy	Genoa
Museo Civico di Rovereto	51,000	ROV	Italy	Rovereto, Trentino	[47]
Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali	50,000	MRSN	Italy	Torino
Università degli Studi di Napoli	50,000	PORUN	Italy	Portici, Napoli

Spain and Portugal

The following table includes herbaria located in Spain and Portugal, including the Canary Islands.

**Herbaria in Spain and Portugal**
Name	No. Specimens^[1]	Abbr.	Country	City	Website
Real Jardín Botánico	850,000	MA	Spain	Madrid	[48]
University of Coimbra	800,000	COI	Portugal	Coimbra	[49]
Institut Botànic de Barcelona	700,000	BC	Spain	Barcelona
Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical	300,000	LISC	Portugal	Lisbon
Universitat de Barcelona	300,000	BCN	Spain	Barcelona
Universitat de Sevilla	300,000	SEV	Spain	Seville
Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, C.S.I.C.	260,000	JACA	Spain	Jaca
Museu Nacional de História Natural, Lisboa	250,000	LISU	Portugal	Lisbon
Universidad Complutense	175,000	MAF	Spain	Madrid
Universitat de València	160,000	VAL	Spain	Valencia	[50]
Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Alava	140,000	VIT	Spain	Vitoria-Gasteiz
Universidad de Salamanca	110,000	SALA	Spain	Salamanca
Estação Agronómica Nacional	90,000	LISE	Portugal	Oeiras
Universidad de La Laguna	83,000	TFC	Spain	La Laguna, Canary Islands
Universidad de Córdoba	80,000	COA	Spain	Córdoba	[51]
Universidad de León	78,000	LEB	Spain	León
Alto de Zorroaga s.n.	75,000	ARAN	Spain	Donostia-San Sebastián
Universidade do Porto	73,800	PO	Portugal	Porto
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela	71,000	SANT	Spain	Santiago de Compostela, Galicia	[52]
Universidad de Murcia	61,000	MUB	Spain	Murcia
Universidad de Málaga	55,000	MGC	Spain	Málaga	[53]
Universidad de Alicante	50,000	ABH	Spain	Alicante
Jardín Botánico Atlántico, Ayuntamiento de Gijón	50,000	JBAG	Spain	Gijón, Asturias
Universitat de Girona	45,000	HGI	Spain	Girona
University of Algarve	27,000	ALGU	Portugal	Faro	[54]

Turkey

Western Europe

The tables below list herbaria located in Western Europe as defined by the United Nations geoscheme for Europe: France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the Low Countries.

Austria and Switzerland

The following table includes herbaria located in Austria and Switzerland, as well as Liechtenstein.

**Herbaria in Austria and Switzerland**
Name	No. Specimens^[1]	Abbr.	Country	City	Website
Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève	6,000,000	G	Switzerland	Geneva	[55]
Naturhistorisches Museum Wien	5,000,000	W	Austria	Vienna	[56]
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich	2,000,000	ZT	Switzerland	Zürich	[57]
Universität Zürich	1,500,000	Z	Switzerland	Zürich	[58]^{[permanent dead link‍]}
Universität Wien	1,400,000	WU	Austria	Vienna	[59]
Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz	800,000	GZU	Austria	Graz	[60]
Musée et Jardins Botaniques Cantonaux	800,000	LAU	Switzerland	Lausanne	[61]
Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseums	700,000	LI	Austria	Linz
Universität Basel	520,000	BAS, BASBG	Switzerland	Basel
Université de Neuchâtel	455,000	NEU	Switzerland	Neuchâtel
University of Bern	410,000	BERN	Switzerland	Bern	[62]
Steiermärkisches Landesmuseum Joanneum	350,000	GJO	Austria	Graz	[63]
Tyrolean State Museum	300,000	IBF	Austria	Innsbruck
Museo cantonale di storia naturale	200,000	LUG	Switzerland	Lugano
Landesmuseum für Kärnten	160,000	KL	Austria	Klagenfurt	[64]
Haus der Natur	100,000	SZB	Austria	Salzburg
Universität Innsbruck	100,000	IB	Austria	Innsbruck	[65]
Natur-Museum Luzern	90,000	NMLU	Switzerland	Lucerne	[66]
University of Salzburg	63,000	SZU	Austria	Salzburg
Federal Research and Training Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape (BFW)	50,000	WFBVA	Austria	Vienna

France

The following table includes herbaria located in France (including Corsica) and Monaco.

**Herbaria in France**
Name	No. Specimens^[1]	Abbr.	Country	City	Website
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle	9,500,000	P, PC	France	Paris	[67]
Université Montpellier	4,000,000	MPU	France	Montpellier
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1	4,000,000	LY	France	Lyon	[68]
Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Grenoble	700,000	GRM	France	Grenoble
Institut des Herbiers Universitaires de Clermont-Ferrand	550,000	CLF	France	Clermont-Ferrand	[69]
Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle d'Aix-en-Provence	420,000	AIX	France	Aix-en-Provence
Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle d'Autun	400,000	AUT	France	Autun
Muséum Requien	400,000	AV	France	Avignon
Jardin Botanique de la Ville de Bordeaux	350,000	BORD	France	Bordeaux
Muséum des sciences naturelles d'Angers	350,000	ANG	France	Angers
Institut de Botanique	300,000	STR	France	Strasbourg
Université Paul Sabatier	300,000	TL	France	Toulouse
Muséum-Jardin des Sciences	250,000	MJSD	France	Dijon
Université Catholiques de l'Ouest	250,000	ANG	France	Angers
Centre d'Étude et de Conservation des Resources Végétales	200,000	GABAS	France	Bayonne
Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Nice	200,000	NICE	France	Nice
Société Nationale des Sciences Naturelles et Mathématiques de Cherbourg	200,000	CHE	France	Cherbourg
Jardin Botanique de la Ville de Lyon	140,000	LYJB	France	Lyon	[70]
Campus scientifique de Beaulieu and Campus Villejean	112,000	REN	France	Rennes
Conservatoire Botanique National Alpin	100,000	GAP	France	Gap
Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Nantes	100,000	NTM	France	Nantes

Germany

The following table includes herbaria located in Germany.

**Herbaria in Germany**
Name	No. Specimens^[1]	Abbr.	Country	City	Website
Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Zentraleinrichtung der Freien Universität Berlin	3,000,000	B	Germany	Berlin	[71]
University of Jena	3,000,000	JE	Germany	Jena	[72]
Botanische Staatssammlung München	2,500,000	M	Germany	Munich	[73]
Biozentrum Klein-Flottbek	1,400,000	HBG	Germany	Hamburg	[74]
Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg	1,000,000	FR	Germany	Frankfurt am Main	[75]
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde	1,000,000	STU	Germany	Stuttgart
University of Göttingen	750,000	GOET	Germany	Göttingen	[76]
Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research	545,000	GAT	Germany	Gatersleben
University of Halle-Wittenberg	450,000	HAL	Germany	Halle	[77]^{[permanent dead link‍]}
Übersee-Museum	375,000	BREM	Germany	Bremen
Technische Universität Dresden	350,000	DR	Germany	Dresden
University of Marburg	300,000	MB	Germany	Marburg	[78]
Westfälisches Museum für Naturkunde	300,000	MSTR	Germany	Münster
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe	270,000	KR	Germany	Karlsruhe
University of Tübingen	250,000	TUB	Germany	Tübingen
University of Greifswald	250,000	GFW	Germany	Greifswald
University of Heidelberg	250,000	HEID	Germany	Heidelberg
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz	178,000	GLM	Germany	Görlitz
University of Leipzig	170,000	LZ	Germany	Leipzig	[79]
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg	158,000	ER	Germany	Erlangen	[80]
Palatine Museum of Natural History (Pfalzmuseum für Naturkunde)	150,000	POLL	Germany	Bad Dürkheim
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich	140,000	MSB	Germany	München	[81]
University of Regensburg	140,000	REG	Germany	Regensburg
Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin	100,000	BHUPM	Germany	Berlin	[82]
Museum Wiesbaden	100,000	WIES	Germany	Wiesbaden	[83]
Universität Hohenheim (210)	100,000	HOH	Germany	Stuttgart
Bundesamt für Naturschutz	90,000	BNL	Germany	Bonn
University of Kiel (Christian-Albrechts-Universität)	90,000	KIEL	Germany	Kiel

Low Countries

The following table includes herbaria located in Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Cyprus

**Herbaria in the Low Countries**
Name	No. Specimens^[1]	Abbr.	Country	City	Website
Naturalis Biodiversity Center (Nationaal Herbarium Nederland)	5,700,000	L, U, WAG	Netherlands	Leiden	[84]
Meise Botanic Garden	4,000,000	BR	Belgium	Meise	[85]
Université de Liège	400,000	LG	Belgium	Liège
Ghent University	250,000	GENT	Belgium	Ghent	[86]
Université Libre de Bruxelles	215,000	BRLU	Belgium	Brussels	[87]
Adviesbureau voor Bryologie en Lichenologie	50,000	ABL	Netherlands	Soest
State University of Groningen	50,000	GRO	Netherlands	Haren
Musée national d'histoire naturelle	50,000	LUX	Luxembourg	Luxembourg
Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht	50,000	MAAS	Netherlands	Maastricht
Near East University Herbarium	6,500	NEUN	Cyprus	Nicosia	[88]

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