Audioguides
Audible on your personal device, even from home
Explore the Museum at Your Own Pace
Our audio guides accompany you through the exhibition and offer different perspectives on nature and research – from classic tours to queer viewpoints and literary narratives in the Anthropocene. All offerings are available free of charge via our audio guide portal on your own device, with no app download required.
Choose from a range of tours, languages, and formats – for adults, children, or in German Sign Language. This allows you to tailor your museum visit and discover objects, stories, and connections in new ways.
General Audio Guide
Use our free audio guide directly on your own smartphone – no app download required. This web-based service guides you through the exhibition and enriches your visit with additional information and stories.
For a more comfortable listening experience, we recommend bringing your own headphones.
What to expect
- Audio guide available in 11 languages: German, English, French, Polish, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Japanese, Russian, and Ukrainian
- Highlight tour in German Sign Language (DGS)
- Children’s version in German and English (from age six)
Queering Nature
How is nature sexualized? How do researchers determine the sex of a dinosaur? And what knowledge about sex and diversity does a natural history museum present – or leave out? Queering Nature focuses on these questions and brings a queer historical perspective on nature and science to the forefront.
We offer this format both as a guided tour and as an audio guide. Both lead to selected stations in the exhibitions and address topics such as sexuality, gender diversity, and different forms of coexistence. This creates a new perspective on familiar objects – and on the stories they tell. The tour questions established systems of classification, makes gaps visible, and shows how closely biological interpretations are linked to societal concepts.
To the Queering Nature audio guide
Credits
- Authors: Krischan Macioszek, Lou Bela Houter
- Consultation: Kes Otter Lieffe, Roos Hopman, Mathias Zilch
- Producer: Tahani Nadim
- Key visual: Lawrence Houter
Wie Gras
A Literary Audio Guide to the Anthropocene
How does a natural history museum tell the story of the Anthropocene – the age in which human activity is profoundly shaping the planet? The literary audio guide Wie Gras opens up new perspectives on the exhibition and its objects. Texts by Daniel Falb, Monika Rinck, and Judith Schalansky, voiced by Sandra Hüller, Dirk von Lowtzow, and Christoph Müller, combine science, literature, and sound into a multi-layered listening experience.
The audio guide invites you to read the museum differently: as a place where stories of nature, technology, and society overlap. Between exhibition objects, infrastructure, and seemingly peripheral spaces, new questions emerge about responsibility, the future, and the relationship between humans and the environment.
Credits
- Authors: Daniel Falb, Monika Rinck, Judith Schalansky
- FARN Collective: Sandra Hüller, Tom Schneider, Tobias Staab, Michael Graessner, Sandro Tajouri, Moritz Bossmann
- Voices: Sandra Hüller, Dirk von Lowtzow, Christoph Müller
- Concept and direction: Michael Graessner, Tom Schneider
- Music: Moritz Bossmann, Philine Lembeck, Sandro Tajouri
- Project lead and concept (MfN): Elisabeth Heyne
- Conceptual consulting: Ulrike Sturm
- Supported by: Linda Gallé, Sonja Kreft, Valentin Henning, Sylvia Hinz, Astrid Faber, Martin Tscholl, Catharina Madruga, Katja Kaiser, Marc Jerusel, Frederike Nolte, Gesine Steiner, Stefanie Krzyzniewski, Lisa Kluckert, Mira Witte, Madeleine Dontschev
- Production: FARN Collective and Museum für Naturkunde Berlin