The globally unique fossil site Bromacker in the Thuringian Forest provides insights into a geological era when early tetrapods lived on the supercontinent Pangaea – millions of years before the dinosaurs.
The Ribbeck meteorite fall in January 2024 was a sensation. Experts from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin are investigating the extraterrestrial rock and coordinating an international research consortium on the Ribbeck meteorite.
On a day in spring, just a few hundred metres from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Frederic Griesbaum accompanies a group of young people through the green area along the Südpanke.
The Museum für Naturkunde Berlin is redeveloping itself. The historic building on Invalidenstraße is becoming a 21st century museum that opens its collection to the world: a place of research and safeguarding, of discovery and democracy.
Research for nature
Our mission is to discover and describe life and earth – with people, through dialogue.
We are developing an open, interconnected collection that opens up new approaches to research and knowledge transfer through innovative data and knowledge management.
We study how knowledge about nature is generated, how it is utilised in society, and how science and society work together to develop solutions to environmental challenges.
Our team
434 people work at the Museum für Naturkunde. Find your contact.
Towards the natural history museum of the 21st century
The Museum in motion
"For us, it is about being a place for encounter, dialogue and democracy. Constant change is part of our DNA. We are the museum of the future." – Director General Prof. Johannes Vogel, PhD
