Visitors and podcasts – over a million for nature

In 2025, the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin welcomed 737,918 visitors to its premises and recorded more than 550,000 streams of its two successful podcasts, ‘Beats & Bones’ and ‘Süßes oder Saurier’. This underscores the Leibniz Association’s research museum’s relevance as a key hub for science communication, education and social dialogue on nature and biodiversity.

With 737,918 visitors, the Museum of Natural History remained a highly popular cultural and scientific attraction in Berlin in 2025. At the same time, the museum’s digital reach demonstrates that interest in scientific topics extends far beyond the museum building.

The science podcast Beats & Bones, which presents the museum’s research in a contemporary and accessible way, achieved 215,967 streams. Beats & Bones has established itself as a fixture in science communication.

The family and educational podcast Süßes oder Saurier, which conveys complex topics in a playful and child-friendly manner, reached 335,256 streams. 

Together, this amounts to well over a million points of contact with nature – covering topics such as evolution, biodiversity, climate change and the relevance of research. 

“These figures impressively demonstrate that our exciting exhibitions and excellent science inspire people across all age groups and that nature is understood as a shared responsibility,” says Director General Johannes Vogel. “Our aim is to make knowledge accessible and to inspire enthusiasm for the diversity of life. Reaching more than a million people is a strong signal of this. As part of our museum’s evolution, we will be able to engage people even more closely in future and, in the long term, reach more than a million visitors on site.”