The Department of Botany, Wood Science and Non-Timber Forest Resources of UNFU since 1991 has established the Museum of Wood, which exhibits the only collection of wood in Ukraine, collected in the early XX century by Prof. Evstahiy Voloshchak, the founder of the Lviv Botanical School of the XVIII-XIX centuries. The collection contains samples of wood (transverse, radial and tangential sections) from all around the globe and belongs to the unique European and world collections. Today, the wood collection includes 2,808 species from 573 plants. The majority includes the fragments of secondary xylem of trees, shrubs and vines, but there are also samples of stems of dicotyledonous grasses and monocotyledonous plants with sclerenchymatized tissues and abnormal secondary growth.

Realizing the uniqueness of the collection, as well as its historical and botanical value for the world scientific community, the staff of the Department in cooperation with leading dendrologists of various scientific institutions seeks to promote information about it. In particular, an application was submitted to the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine for recognition of this collection as a scientific object that is a national heritage.

The Museum of Wood regularly hosts excursions and meetings with scientists, students of advanced training courses, college students and schoolchildren.