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Sun | 08/07/2016 | 16:00 bis Fri | 08/12/2016 | 17:00 79th Annual Meeting of The Meteoritical Society Welcome to the 79th Annual Meeting of The Meteoritical Society
Mon | 06/20/2016 | 07:00 bis Sat | 06/25/2016 | 16:30 SPNHC 2016 31st Annual Meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC)
Mon | 03/11/2013 | 10:00 bis Fri | 03/15/2013 | 17:00 SAGE 2013 2nd Southeast Asian Gateway Evolution Meeting
Catalogues of the Diptera types Catalogues of the Diptera types in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
SP2 Collection Future Collection Crustacea The Crustacean Collection comprises over 36,500 samples with an estimated 1 million individuals.
SP2 Collection Future Collection Reptiles and Amphibians Reptiles and amphibians are organised as the Herpetological Collection in the Museum für Naturkunde which comprises 160,000 amphibian and reptiles, of which the oldest specimens are 280 years old.
SP2 Collection Future Collection Fishes The Fish, lat. Ichthyological, Collection in the Museum für Naturkunde comprises approximately 133,490 specimens and for the abundance of historic specimens from all over the world it is a unique collection in Germany.
SP2 Collection Future Collection Birds The ornithology collection is the largest in Germany and one of the most significant bird collections in the world.
Thu | 07/07/2016 | 14:21 Bats of Berlin Simon Ripperger and Linus Günther are on the lookout for bats in city parks in Berlin.
Thu | 07/07/2016 | 10:06 Online Collections Online Collections The Museum für Naturkunde Berlin makes part of its large collection available online for research: The Data Portal (Beta version with select digital media from our collection) The Animal Sound Archive (recorded sounds of animals) The EOS Portal (parts of the entomological collections) Many collection and publication data as well as media content of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin can be found on subject portals as well as media aggregation platforms.
Thu | 07/07/2016 | 10:01 Fossil Invertebrates Fossil Invertebrates The Fossil Invertebrates Collection comprises fossil remains of bivalves, snails, corals, sponges, sea urchins, sea lilies, crustaceans etc. These include many now extinct species such as trilobites, ammonites or rudists. The collections also includes a substantial collection of amber with insect inclusions, a collection of fossil footprints as well as the micro-palaeontological collection.
Thu | 07/07/2016 | 09:53 Fossil Vertebrates Fossil Vertebrates The Fossil Vertebrates Collection comprises the fossil remains of all known vertebrate groups. The collection has been systematically divided into large groups. Sub-collections have been assigned to individual curatorships and include the large groups of fossil fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. Most remains are petrifactions of bones and teeth. These can be individual bones or entire skeletons.
SP2 Collection Future Research Research Infrastructure Transfer Collections Management Knowledge Transfer Collection Cooperation SYNTHESYS+ The EU project enables, facilitates and enhances the scientific access (physical & virtual) to natural history collections for scientists and institutions
Wed | 07/06/2016 | 13:40 Seacows in the street Skeletal remains of an ancient sea cow where found embedded in the pavement of the city Girona. Oliver Hampe and Manja Voss from the Museum für Naturkunde have now investigated the find.
Press release, 04-07-2016
Exhibition Society Collection
Art/Nature II – Artistic Interventions at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin The pilot project features new art works Opening: 18 July, 7 p.m.; preview for journalists 11.00 a.m
SP2 Collection Future Collection Earth Sciences Rock and Ore Collection Due to its history, the Rock and Ore Collection of the Museums für Naturkunde Berlin is an eminent treasure trove of knowledge. This article focuses on the history and highlights of the collection and contains information on ongoing research, digitalisation and the library.
Press release, 01-07-2016
Evolution Society Saur
The 500,000th Visitor travelled to Berlin especially to see TRISTAN Hendrik Folkenborn (30), firefighter from Mülheim an der Ruhr, travelled to Berlin with his wife and friends especially to see T. rex TRISTAN OTTO.
Fri | 06/24/2016 | 14:01 The Museum and its History The Museum für Naturkunde Berlin looks back on a long and eventful history. Read here about the most important events since the founding of the museum.
Wed | 06/22/2016 | 16:38 Memberships The Museumj für Naturkunde as part of national and international networks
Press release, 22-06-2016
Digitalization Evolution Research Cluster Fossils Cooperation
Modern imaging techniques reveal the unusual teeth of a nearly 300 million year old relative of mammals Fossil mammal with special features in the skull, including an extremely dense field of exceptionally large teeth on its palate

Museum für Naturkunde Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung