Third-Party Funded Project
WiNoDa Knowledge Lab
Knowledge Lab for Natural Science Collections and Object-Related Data
Projects
- Third-Party Funded Project
Berlin’s Community Gardens promote Pollinator Conservation
We study and strengthen Berlin’s community gardens as urban habitats for pollinators.
ELIO – Development Laboratory for Innovation in Object Digitisation
Strengthening collaboration between technology companies and cultural institutions
Research and Responsibility
Virtual Access to Integrated Fossil and Archival Material from the German Tendaguru Expedition (1909–1913)
mit:forschen! Creating knowledge together
As Germany’s leading citizen science platform, mit:forschen! connects, showcases and embeds citizen science projects within society.
- Third-Party Funded Project
Open Access publication costs 2026–2028
Expanding a sustainable, transparent and future-proof open access infrastructure
- Third-Party Funded Project
The Evolution of ornamentation of Cranial dermal bones in fossil and recent amphibians
Why are the skull bones of some amphibians ornamented? We are investigating the development and evolution of these structures in fossil and modern amphibians.
- Third-Party Funded Project
Environmental Education Coordination Office Reinickendorf
Education on nature, the environment, climate and sustainability in the Reinickendorf district is coordinated by the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin – for schools, nurseries and other educational institutions.
- Third-Party Funded Project
Environmental Education Coordination Office Mitte
Environmental education programmes for schools, kindergarden and other educational institutions in the Mitte district are coordinated and linked by the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.
TheMuseumsLab
A unique platform for joint learning, leadership development, and fostering dialogue between Africa and Europe
CollabFund
Joint projects between TheMuseumsLab alumni and partner museums
- Third-Party Funded Project
Mind the Water: Voices from Berlin and Brandenburg
Views and perspectives from the public on water-related change are being gathered in Berlin and Brandenburg to raise awareness among people about the future of one of their most important resources.
- Third-Party Funded Project
Integration of (bio-)acoustic methods for quantifying biodiversity into forest monitoring
Feasibility study
Amber forests
Plant fossils preserved in amber provide a record of past forest ecosystems.
- Third-Party Funded Project
Educational ecosystem "Museum in the School"
Various stakeholders learn from and with one another
- Third-Party Funded Project
Museum visitors’ nature connection
Researching connection to nature and developing a German-language survey instrument
Einstein Centre for Early Disease Interception
We advance ‘upstream engagement’, setting new standards in innovative teaching and education formats, science communication with patients and society
PEX Public Engagement Exchange
Fellowship programme to foster leadership and innovation in public engagement (PE) among researchers and public engagement professionals based in Germany and South Africa
Promoting sustainable data practices and infrastructures in biodiversity science
Analysis of environmental, social, and economic sustainability for data practices and infrastructures
Paleopathology in Late Triassic phytosaurs as a window to early archosauriform paleoecology
behavior and bone healing
Berlin Hub for Science and Society
Think and Do Tank dedicated to research and practice in the fields of Science Communication and Public Engagement
Ontogeny and evolution of sensory perception in temnospondyls
Reconstructing aspects of temnospondyl life history from a physiological perspective
- Third-Party Funded Project
Like Grass. A literary audio guide to the Anthropocene
Texts by Daniel Falb, Monika Rinck and Judith Schalansky transform the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin into a literary space exploring the Anthropocene – available to listen to via an audio guide.
Investigating Volatile-Related Processes on Rocky Planetary Bodies
Understanding how endogenous mafic material interacts with exogenous volatile-bearing material on the surfaces of differentiated bodies
Diversity, ecology and functional characteristics of Medullosa fern seeds
Characteristic plants of the intramontane regions of the Early Permian, tropical Pangaea (Central Europe)
The Martin Heinrich Klaproth Collection
Martin Heinrich Klaproth discovered uranium – his historic mineral collection at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin is now being systematically catalogued and researched for the first time.
- In-House Project
Future Plan - Specify 7
The introduction of Specify will establish a central digital infrastructure that standardises the recording of the museum’s collection data, preserves it for the long term and makes it accessible to researchers.
- In-House Project
Netzwerk Naturwissen
Exploring new ways of generating and sharing knowledge in the face of global environmental crises
- In-House Project
Like Grass. A literary audio guide to the Anthropocene
Texts by Daniel Falb, Monika Rinck and Judith Schalansky transform the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin into a literary space exploring the Anthropocene – available to listen to via an audio guide.
- In-House Project
Formation of carbonaceous cosmic dust revealed by samples returned from asteroid Ryugu
A link between carbonaceous cosmic dust and carbonaceous asteroids
- In-House Project
The Ribbeck meteorite fall
As a fresh fall of a very rare meteorite class, Ribbeck became a target of intensive scientific studies
- Initiative
Citizen science and biodiversity research
Strengthening, researching and further developing citizen science for biodiversity conservation
- Initiative
Between science and society: Argumentation on socio-scientific issues in the special exhibition “ZUGvögel”
Through the exhibition *ZUGvögel*, pupils from a partner school in Berlin are learning how to present scientific arguments on socially relevant issues – with academic support from the museum.
FIND – Women in Natural History
Critically examining gender representation in the museum and unearthing and visibly documenting the stories of women who have been associated with the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
