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Heavy Gifts
Natural history collections are primarily comprised of object acquired through donation. The mineral and petrograph collection at the Museum für Naturkunde is no exception and was granted several private collections in the first decades of its establishment.
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Digitizing Collections, Prototyping Publics
What might be the potential role of publics within the current digitisation project of the MFN collections?
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Lost objects, regained nature – Towards the collection of the Anthropocene
A participatory project to tell the Anthropocene story from a citizen’s point of view
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Lecture series: Animals as objects?
This interdisciplinary and international lecture series examines the role of animals in institutional and infrastructural arrangements, past and present.
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Cliff If Felsen
Cliff if Felsen is a poetry project that explores the poetics and politics of the natural history specimen. It centres around the birds that zoologist Ernst Schäfer and American naturalist Brooke Dolan II collected during their second expedition to Tibet…
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The Trained Animal
Until today, the popularity of Animal Training since the mid-19th century continues. People are fascinated by the narrative behind this subject …
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The image collection of Georg August Zenker in the Historical Division
The image collection of Georg August Zenker in the Historical Division
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Nature’s Registry
When the Berlin Zoological Museum was establishes in 1810, the collection of specimens just barely managed to fill four rooms in the eastern wing of the city’s new university. By 1820, hundreds of specimens were flowing into the museum’s collection…
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Bees, pollination and citizen science in Berlin's gardens
How can urban gardens contribute to wild bee conservation in Berlin? How can gardeners and urban planners support wild bees and their pollination effects in community gardens?
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Culture as an evolutionary force: Does song learning accelerate speciation in a bat ring species?
Greater sac-winged bats sing in different dialects. Researchers investigate whether these culturally transmitted singing dialects have an effect on species formation.
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The estate of Rudolf Mell in the Historical Division
Einer der sich in den Historischen Bild- und Schriftgutsammlungen des Museums befindlichen Nachlässe ist der von Rudolf Mell:
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The object collection of the Historical Divison
The following object collections can be found in the Historical Image and Document Collections:
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The image collection of the Historical Divison
In den Historischen Bild- und Schriftgutsammlungen finden sich folgende Bildsammlungen:
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Document collections of the Historical Division
The following document collections can be found in the Historical Image and Document Collections:
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Estate collection of the Historical Division
Estates of the following persons can be found in the Historical Image and Document Collections:
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Records collection of the Historical Division – thematic overview
Der Schriftgutbestand der Historischen Bild- und Schriftgutsammlungen beinhaltet (unter anderem) Verwaltungsakten, Korrespondenz, Personalangelegenheiten in Verbindung mit der Universität, Erwerbung von Sammlungen und Objekten, Sammelreisen.
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Records collection of the Historical Division - chronological overview
The records holdings of the Historical Image and Document Collections include (among other things) administrative files, correspondence, documents on staff matters, acquisition of collections and collecting expeditions from the following periods and areas of the museum:
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Records collection of the Historical Division
The records of the Historical Image and Document Collections contain the files and correspondence of the museum administration, the custodians and other departments (e.g. the exhibition department) since 1810, including correspondence, catalogues, expedition reports, personnel files,...
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Knowing and Caring for Biodiversity
How do the entanglements of humans, non-humans, and technologies produce specific modes of knowing about environments?
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Evolution
Amber forests
Amber as a window to the past: Plant fossils enclosed in amber can be used to reconstruct past vegetation.
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