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For democracy, peace and humanity
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin in solidarity with Ukraine!
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Digitize!
Since 27 October 2021: exhibition and working place live
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Visitor information
Exhibition open – with online ticket
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Research, Collection, Exhibition from home
We expand our digital offerings
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Transformation of the Museum
Future Plan of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
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Connects nature and culture
Bestseller in an updated and expended new edition
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Press Release
Berlin Declaration: For the Future of Humankind
Berlin/Bonn/Frankfurt, 05/19/2022. Thirty years after the first Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, biodiversity loss and global climate change are the greatest and most pressing challenges of the future. Nothing less than our very existence is at stake.
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12. Deutscher Geologentag in Berlin
The ZDF programme series "Terra X" was awarded the "Stein im Brett" prize at the 12th German Geologists' Day at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin on 9 May 2022.
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Start of the Citizen Science competition in the cities
Throughout Germany, citizens are invited to participate in citizen science projects. The competition "On your marks! Citizen Science in your city" competition aims to promote the exchange between science and society at the local level. The deadline for applications is 19 June 2022.
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Fur glowing under UV: a common feature in mammals?
Recent discoveries highlighted that the fur of various mammal species glows in pretty shades of pink and red when exposed to ultraviolet (UV) light.
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Collection discovery on board the MS Wissenschaft
Initiated by the Mediasphere For Nature team, there will be a new exhibit on the research vessel MS Wissenschaft after our last participation in 2019. The display, which was developed at the museum, addresses issues surrounding our collection discovery and simultaneously provides multimedia impressions with results from our digitization processes.
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First global analysis of threats to all reptile species
For the first time ever, turtles, crocodiles, snakes, lizards and tuataras have been comprehensively assessed in terms of their threats. The study, which was published in the journal Nature with the participation of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, analysed data from over 900 scientists compiled in the global Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
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The "missing link" of ticks
In Parasitology a research team from Germany and South Africa, including Jason Dunlop for the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, describe a remarkable fossil tick from the Cretaceous Burmese amber of Myanmar. Khimaira fossus combines the body of a soft tick with the mouthparts of a hard tick.
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New sensory organ discovered
Scientist from the Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Discovery (CIBD) of the Natural History Museum in Berlin, from the ZUSE-Institute Berlin and from the RWTH Aachen University have discovered a new sensory organ for perceiving vibrational signals in leafhoppers, spittlebugs and planthoppers and published in The Royal Society Biology Letters.
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Discovery in the Petrified Forest
Researchers with the participation of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin have described a new plant taxon from the Chemnitz Fossil Forest. The huge, 291-million-year-old seed fern will be studied further in the coming years. The aim is to explore the diversity of plants in the early Permian forests and their role in the increasingly extreme ecosystems of this time.
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Sudan and Museum für Naturkunde Berlin conduct joint research in the new ERC project PALEONILE
The ERC, the most important European funding organisation for excellent frontier research, has announced this year's ERC prizewinners. One of them is the palaeontologist Faysal Bibi from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin with the project PALEONILE. It is the first large-scale systematic palaeontological project to be carried out in Sudan with Sudanese researchers.
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Digital registration of the bat collection
As part of the EU-funded SYNTHESYS+ Virtual Access project, parts of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin's bat collection have been digitally indexed. SYNTHESYS+ Virtual Access is a Europe-wide pilot program for the digitisation of natural history collection objects. The aim is to make these objects digitally available and thus simplify access for research into natural history collections.
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Colonial Contexts of Zoological Collections
The Museum für Naturkunde Berlin publishes 300 objects from colonial contexts in the Data Portal. The Data Portal provides free and open access to the collection as well as to archival and library materials. It is our contribution to the development of a global scientific infrastructure that can be used by many people – addressing diverse perspectives and questions.