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Tue | 10/28/2025 | 18:00 bis 19:30 Guided tour "Queering Nature" A queer-historical view of nature and science
Tue | 10/21/2025 | 18:00 bis 19:30 Guided tour "Queering Nature" A queer-historical view of nature and science
Press release, 27-08-2025
Evolution Research Mammals
Two big steps toward the evolution of bipedality New study reveals how reshaping the pelvis helped human ancestors walk upright
Sat | 10/04/2025 | 14:00 bis 15:00 Queering Nature - in the park A queer-historical view of nature and science
Sun | 10/26/2025 | 15:00 bis 17:00 KinderKulturMonat: Of crocodiles and dinosaur claws Every year in October, the KinderKulturMonat offers children and families a unique programme to take part in and try out. Museums, art and music schools, theatres, galleries, dance schools, cinemas and many more open their doors in all districts of Berlin to paint, explore, dance and make music together with children. There is something exciting for everyone between the ages of 4 and 12!
Sun | 10/26/2025 | 11:00 bis 13:00 KinderKulturMonat: Of crocodiles and dinosaur claws Every year in October, the KinderKulturMonat offers children and families a unique programme to take part in and try out. Museums, art and music schools, theatres, galleries, dance schools, cinemas and many more open their doors in all districts of Berlin to paint, explore, dance and make music together with children. There is something exciting for everyone between the ages of 4 and 12!
Press release, 20-08-2025
Research Mammals
Bats Deliver Prey: Spectacular Insights into the Family Life of the Americas’ Largest Bat Researchers document, for the first time, how the rare spectral bat (Vampyrum spectrum) provides prey to its young—offering clues to parental care and complex social structures.
Press release, 14-08-2025
Museum Visit Open Museum Event Science Communication
Diverse love: Long Night of Museums at the Museum für Naturkunde This year, the Long Night of Museums on 30 August will be held under the motto ‘Love’.
Press release, 13-08-2025
Evolution Fossils Earth Sciences
How Giraffatitan moved its massive tail An international research team led by Dr Verónica Díez Díaz from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin has used new digital 3D reconstructions to gain detailed insights into the mobility of the tail of the sauropod Giraffatitan brancai.
Tue | 09/23/2025 | 19:00 bis 22:00 Naturally Contested: Whose Nature, Whose Conservation? Nature Conservation in the Global South
Mon | 08/11/2025 | 13:30 bis 15:00 Berlin's biodiversity - discovering nature at the Schul-Umwelt-Zentrum Berlin Mitte discovering nature at the Schul-Umwelt-Zentrum Berlin Mitte
Tue | 08/05/2025 | 13:30 bis 15:00 Berlin's biodiversity - discovering nature at the Schul-Umwelt-Zentrum Berlin Mitte discovering nature at the Schul-Umwelt-Zentrum Berlin Mitte
Mon | 07/28/2025 | 07:25 Skin appendages of Mirasaura grauvogeli change understanding of reptile evolution An international research team just presened a groundbreaking study on a new 247-million-year-old reptile named Mirasaura grauvogeli. One of the researcher is Dr. Christian Foth from Museum für Naturkunde Berliner.
Press release, 24-07-2025
Evolution Research Fossils Earth Sciences
New fossil reveals hidden diversity of ancient reptiles before Earth's largest mass extinction An international research team from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and from Buenos Aires and Washington D.C. has identified a new fossil from central Germany, offering fresh insights into the early evolutionary history of archosauromorphs
Tue | 08/05/2025 | 17:00 bis 18:30 Queering Nature - in the park A queer-historical view of nature and science
Press release, 17-07-2025
Cooperation Knowledge Transfer
Two years of learning in the educational ecosystem "Museum in der Schule" The final projects were presented by the pupils in the Dinosaur Hall of the Museum für Naturkunde
Sat | 08/30/2025 | 18:00 bis Sun | 08/31/2025 | 02:00 Long Night of the Museums This year's Long Night of Museums will take place on August 30. We will also be opening our doors and look forward to your visit! 75 museums. 750 events. 1 ticket. This year, we will once again be opening our doors until late at night. This year, everything revolves around love. You can look forward to a varied program with behind-the-scenes tours of our collection treasures and plenty of opportunities to discover new things in the exhibition. You can find a compact summary of our program here:
Wed | 07/23/2025 | 12:30 bis 15:30 Open Museum Studio in the Microscopy Centre In our Open Museum Studio the objects are not behind glass, but on your hand, in front of your nose or under the microscope!
Wed | 07/16/2025 | 12:30 bis 15:30 Open Museum Studio in the Microscopy Centre In our Open Museum Studio the objects are not behind glass, but on your hand, in front of your nose or under the microscope!
Wed | 07/09/2025 | 12:30 bis 15:30 Open Museum Studio in the Microscopy Centre In our Open Museum Studio the objects are not behind glass, but on your hand, in front of your nose or under the microscope!

Museum für Naturkunde Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung