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Tue | 10/25/2016 | 15:08 Kunst/Natur Intervention Round II 19 July - 16 October 2016 What happens when contemporary artists explore a natural history museum? The second round of the pilot project “Art/Nature. Artistic Interventions at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin” features acoustic dioramas created by the artist duo Serotonin and curated by Gaby Hartel, and drawings and silkscreen prints by Fernando Bryce. Both works focus on the history and the collections of the museum around 1900.
Press release, 18-10-2016
Amber Evolution Research Cluster Fossils Knowledge Transfer
Ancient tick reveals its secrets Research team led by the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin publishes new facts about fossil ticks.
SP2 Collection Future Research Infrastructure Collections Management Database Research Data Management Collection Digitalization DCOLL The aim of DCOLL is to comprehensively digitize natural science collections and create a networked infrastructure. It will provide optimised access to scientific collections and will facilitate their use by the scientific community and the public.
Tue | 11/08/2016 | 09:30 bis 16:30 European Stakeholder Round Table on Citizen and DIY Science and Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) The event gathers citizen science and DIY science experts to define links to Responsible Research and Innovation and co-create our policy engagement agenda.
SP2 Collection Future Collection Molluscs With more than 7 million specimens the mollusc collection is one of the largest at Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.
SP1 Dynamics of Nature Evolutionary Diversity Dynamics SP2 Collection Future Research Amphibians Protection of Species Biodiversity Nimba Project Project describtion
Mon | 04/03/2017 | 09:00 bis Sat | 04/08/2017 | 20:00 8th International Meeting on the Secondary Adaptation of Tetrapods to Life in Water
Thu | 09/15/2016 | 15:14 Explore Natural History in VR with Google Arts & Culture The Museum für Naturkunde features VR films and online exhibitions.
SP2 Collection Future Research Infrastructure Transfer Open Museum Database Research Data Management Science Communication Digitalization BHL – Biodiversity Heritage Library The Museum für Naturkunde Berlin coordinated the "BHL Europe" project in 2009-2012 and became a full member of the BHL consortium in 2018.
SP2 Collection Future Research Infrastructure Transfer Open Museum Database Research Data Management Science Communication Digitalization BHL-Europe - Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe The Project "Biodiversity Heritage Library" (BHL) digitises literature from partner libraries in the US and UK since 2007 and makes them available online.
Press release, 14-09-2016
Society Cooperation Saur
Tyrannosaurus rex conquering Europe Tristan congratulate Trix in Netherlands
SP2 Collection Future Collection Spiders and Myriapods The collection of arachnids and myriapods at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin is unique in Europe because of its size and historical significance.
Tue | 09/13/2016 | 13:03 An extinct world bought back to life with „Google Arts & Culture“ More than 150 interactive stories from experts, 300,000 new photos and videos, and more than 30 virtual tours await you
Mon | 11/07/2016 | 18:30 Public Participation in Bio-Innovation Public Participation in Bio-Innovation Rationale We are living in a world of transformation. Climate changes, natural resources become scarce. In many sections of society discourses on way of lives started. In the whole world scientists, politicians, entrepreneurs and an active citizenship work for as sustainable future.
SP2 Collection Future Collection Butterflies and Caddisflies One of the most colourful collections at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin is the collection of butterflies and caddisflies. The diversity of this insect group comes to the fore in over 4 million specimens.
SP2 Collection Future Collection Hymenoptera and Neuropterida Together with beetles, butterflies and dipterans and neuropterans, hymenopterans are among the five most species-rich insect orders.
SP2 Collection Future Collection Fossils Fossil Mammals The collection of Fossil Mammals at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin contains about 80,000 macroscopic objects and about 1,000,000 fossilised remains of small mammals. Among them are 41 types and over 1,500 originals.
Wed | 09/07/2016 | 10:02 Mineralogy and Petrography Mineralogy and Petrography Due to its history, the wealth of specimens and its scientific importance the Mineral Collection at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin is one of the most significant in Europe. The Mineral Collection alone comprises 180,000 samples of approximately 3,000 minerals, which is about 60 percent of all known minerals. It is the largest and most diverse Mineral Collection in Germany and therefore comparable in significance to collections of other major natural history museums in Europe.
Wed | 09/07/2016 | 09:42 Recent Vertebrates Recent Vertebrates These collections consist of specimens belonging to the clades of craniates and vertebrates. They are systematically arranged according to clades. Sub-collections that have been assigned their own curatorship include the clades of extant fishes, reptiles and amphibians, birds and mammals. The vertebrate collections also contain specialist collections focusing on developmental biology or domestic animals.
Tue | 09/13/2016 | 09:30 bis 18:00 Natural History in Virtual Reality Sold out Museum für Naturkunde takes a step into the future and presents itself at Google Arts & Culture from now on. Owing to recent technologies visitors can experience the museum in a new digital way and get in touch with a few favoured objects in Virtual Reality. On this occasion the Dinosaur Hall appears in a unique look and you can expect special activites for the whole family. Please understand that limitations in the exhibition area are possible that day.

Museum für Naturkunde Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung