Palaeontological Museum of the University of Zurich, Fossil museum in Zürich, Switzerland

The Palaeontological Museum of the University of Zurich, part of the university's Natural History Museum since 2024, occupies exhibition space shared with the Zoological Museum since 1956. Its centrepiece is a collection of well-preserved Middle Triassic marine fish and saurians, roughly 245.9 to 228.7 million years old, from Monte San Giorgio in Ticino, a UNESCO World Heritage site since July 2003. The holdings, ordered by systematics, stratigraphy and geography, comprise about 100,000 invertebrates, 10,000 vertebrates and 6,000 Ticino fossils, with further specimens from Switzerland, the Alps and North America.

The Palaeontological Institute and Museum was founded in 1956, with Emil Kuhn-Schnyder as its first director; the display collection had been open to the public since 1965 and the museum was officially opened in 1991. Its fossils trace back to the 17th century. From 1956 to 2024 it shared exhibition space with the Zoological Museum, and in 2024 it became part of the Natural History Museum of the University of Zurich.

The collection is arranged by systematics, stratigraphy and geography, and its roughly 6,000 "Ticino fossils" come from Monte San Giorgio, a mountain in the canton of Ticino inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in July 2003. The museum has been part of the Natural History Museum of the University of Zurich since 2024.

The museum shares its exhibition floor with the Zoological Museum Zurich, an arrangement in place since 1956, so both collections are visited under one roof. The Palaeontological Institute and Museum was founded in 1956; the display collection has been open to the public since 1965 and was officially opened as a museum in 1991.

The museum's collection is arranged by systematics, stratigraphy and geography, and holds about 100,000 invertebrates, 10,000 vertebrates and 6,000 fossils from Ticino. Its first professor of palaeontology was Bernhard Peyer, who held the chair from 1943 to 1955.