Botany Museum came into existence in 1967with a vision to provide awareness of the region's flora to students and the general public. The Museum has a rich collection of more than five hundred specimens from tropical evergreen forests of western Ghats, semi-evergreen deciduous and shola forests of western ghats, and various beaches collected by the staff and students during field visits and botanical excursions/study tours over the years. The Museum contains approximately 40 species of Algae, 65 species of Fungi, 35 species of Bryophytes, 60 species of Pteridophytes, species of Gymnosperms, and more than 200 species of Angiosperm and plants. It also includes the number of local plants having medicinal importance, specimens of marine and mangrove, and more than 1000 herbaria belonging to 35 families of plants.