Helsinki University Museum is responsible for the nationally important cultural history collections of the university. Only a small fraction of its 55 000 exhibits are on display in exhibitions or in other university buildings. The University’s art collection, approximately 1 200 works, is nevertheless on display almost in its entirety. The majority of the collections are stored in repositories.

The largest project of recent years has been the transfer of collections to premises fulfilling museum requirements. The project to move the main collection to new premises was finalised in 2015, but moving other collections will still take many years. A selection of the collections can be viewed through the portal Arjenhistoria.fi.