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SP4 Museum and Society Humanities of Nature Research Politics Collection 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.
SP4 Museum and Society Humanities of Nature Database Research Data Management Collection Digitalization Digitizing Collections, Prototyping Publics What might be the potential role of publics within the current digitisation project of the MFN collections?
SP4 Museum and Society Science in Society Transfer Collection Citizen Science Society Digitalization 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
SP4 Museum and Society Humanities of Nature Research Knowledge Transfer Lecture series: Animals as objects? This interdisciplinary and international lecture series examines the role of animals in institutional and infrastructural arrangements, past and present.
SP4 Museum and Society Humanities of Nature Politics Knowledge Transfer Science Communication Collection Society 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…
SP4 Museum and Society Humanities of Nature Research Politics Society 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 …
Humanities of Nature Research Research Infrastructure Collection Cultural Heritage The image collection of Georg August Zenker in the Historical Division The image collection of Georg August Zenker in the Historical Division
SP4 Museum and Society Humanities of Nature Research Research Infrastructure Collections management Research Data Management Collection 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…
SP4 Museum and Society Science in Society Research Transfer Biodiversity Citizen Science Society 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?
SP1 Evolution and Geoprocesses Microevolution Research Morphology Mammals Protection of Species Evolution 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.
Humanities of Nature Research Research Infrastructure Collection Cultural Heritage 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:
Humanities of Nature Research Research Infrastructure Collection Cultural Heritage The object collection of the Historical Divison The following object collections can be found in the Historical Image and Document Collections:
Humanities of Nature Research Research Infrastructure Collection Cultural Heritage The image collection of the Historical Divison In den Historischen Bild- und Schriftgutsammlungen finden sich folgende Bildsammlungen:
Humanities of Nature Research Research Infrastructure Collection Cultural Heritage Document collections of the Historical Division The following document collections can be found in the Historical Image and Document Collections:
Humanities of Nature Research Research Infrastructure Collection Cultural Heritage Estate collection of the Historical Division Estates of the following persons can be found in the Historical Image and Document Collections:
Humanities of Nature Research Research Infrastructure Collection Cultural Heritage 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.
Humanities of Nature Research Research Infrastructure Collection Cultural Heritage 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:
Humanities of Nature Research Research Infrastructure Collection Cultural Heritage 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,...
SP4 Museum and Society Humanities of Nature Research Transfer Biodiversity Citizen Science Society Knowing and Caring for Biodiversity How do the entanglements of humans, non-humans, and technologies produce specific modes of knowing about environments?
SP1 Evolution and Geoprocesses Diversity Dynamics Research Collection 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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