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SP2 Collection Future Collection Fossils Fossil Plants The Palaeobotany Collections comprise over 230,000 items with more than 9,100 voucher specimens and types. The collection covers the entire geological history of fossil plants.
Tue | 08/23/2016 | 16:09 Booking information Find all information on how to book our educational programmes here.
SP2 Collection Future Collection Hemimetabola The Hemimetabola Collection maintains much more than a million specimens. Bugs, cicades, grasshoppers, dragonflies and other insectgroups take part of this collection.
SP2 Collection Future Collection Flies, Midges and Fleas The Flea and Fly Collection at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin was founded at the beginning of the 19th century and is still expanding with new material.
SP2 Collection Future Collection Animal Sound Archive The Animal Sound Archive at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin is one of the oldest and most comprehensive collection of animal sound recordings in the world. It comprises approximately 120,000 sound recordings.
SP2 Collection Future Collection Beetles and Strepsiptera The Beetle Collection at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin is one of the largest in the world and the most comprehensive, type-rich and significant collection of its kind in Germany.
Wed | 08/10/2016 | 09:32 Recent Invertebrates Recent Invertebrates The zoological invertebrae collections are the most comprehensive collections at the Museum für Naturkunde. In total they comprise about 25 Million items of molluscs, such as snails and mussels, as well as cephalopods, corals, sponges, sea urchins, crustaceans, worm-like vermes, arachnids and insects. The entomological collections are the most extensive collections with more than 15 million items.
SP2 Collection Future Mammals Collection Mammals The Mammals Collection comprises approximately 150,000 specimens, including over 2,000 type specimens. It is one of the world’s largest collection of recent mammals.
SP2 Collection Future Genomics Collection DNA and Tissue Collection Molecular genetic research has been going on at the Museum für Naturkunde for over 30 years and the DNA collection comprises over 30,000 samples from species throughout the animal kingdom.
SP2 Collection Future Research Infrastructure Database Science Communication Collection Library The library of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin is a collection in its own right - of scientific literature.
Press release, 21-07-2016
Earth Sciences Meteorites
Special Exhibition Comets. The Rosetta Mission – a Voyage to the Origins of the Solar System at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin Earth Sciences Meteorites Press release, 21-07-2016 The special exhibition The Rosetta Mission – a Voyage to the Origins of the Solar System, organised by the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (German Aerospace Center DLR) in cooperation with the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and the Max Planck Society, gives an insight into the fascination of comets and how the Rosetta mission set out to reveal their secrets. The exhibition runs from August 9th 2016 to January 24th 2017.
SP2 Collection Future Collection Minerals Due to its history and the wealth of specimens, the Mineral Collection at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin is one of the most significant in Europe. This article looks at the history and highlights of the collection and contains information on research, digitisation and the library.
SP2 Collection Future Collection Meteorites Its history and number of specimens makes the meteorite collection at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin one of the most important collections in the world. This article looks at the history and highlights the most significant pieces of the collection, while also giving an overview of research.
Press release, 18-07-2016
Exhibition Society Politics Collection
Art/Nature II – Artistic Interventions at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin The pilot project features new art works
Mon | 09/08/2014 | 09:00 bis Fri | 09/12/2014 | 17:00 DigitalSpecimen 2014 DigitalSpecimen 2014 aims to bring top researchers with experience in digitizing, curators and technical experts together to exchange up-to-date experiences and idea.
Mon | 09/24/2012 | 09:00 bis Wed | 09/26/2012 | 16:30 DigitalFossil Berlin 2012 DigitalFossil Berlin 2012 aims to bring top researchers with experience in digitizing, curators and technical experts together to exchange up-to-date experiences and idea.
Thu | 07/14/2016 | 14:39 Library and Archive Library and Archive The library of the Museum für Naturkunde is one of the most important reference library of zoology, paleontology and mineralogy in the German-speaking countries. It stocks literature from as early as from the 15th century. It furthermore focuses on the collection of literature in the fields of museum studies and history of science.
Thu | 07/14/2016 | 13:22 Museum intern An overview of links for external services for museum employees
Thu | 07/14/2016 | 13:04 Publications and Downloads Science Report Since 2016 we give a detailed insight into our science programmes and projects of the past two years in our Science Report. It is complemented by the Annual Report, which gives an overview of all activities of the past year.
SP2 Collection Future Transfer Open Museum Knowledge Transfer Science Communication Scientific Journals Information about Fossil Record, Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift und Zoosystematics and Evolution

Museum für Naturkunde Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung