Nature museums and their activities for environmental and forest education

The aim of the article is to show the specificity of nature museums and their functions in the field of natural and forest education. The paper presents the idea of nature museums in Poland and their functions (eg. educational, informative, fun). Discusses the activities of museums with collections of natural and isolated from this collection of museums typically forest museums. The analysis and the results show the diversity of these institutions on many levels: location, content of collections (the specifics of collection), the presentation of collections, educational activity.