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Museum fur Naturkunde (Natural History Museum)

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Museum fur Naturkunde (Natural History Museum)
Museum fur Naturkunde (Natural History Museum)
Museum fur Naturkunde (Natural History Museum)
Museum fur Naturkunde (Natural History Museum)
Museum fur Naturkunde (Natural History Museum)
Museum fur Naturkunde (Natural History Museum)
Museum fur Naturkunde (Natural History Museum)
Museum fur Naturkunde (Natural History Museum)
Museum fur Naturkunde (Natural History Museum)
Museum fur Naturkunde (Natural History Museum)
Museum fur Naturkunde (Natural History Museum)
Museum fur Naturkunde (Natural History Museum)
Museum fur Naturkunde (Natural History Museum)
Museum fur Naturkunde (Natural History Museum)
Museum fur Naturkunde (Natural History Museum)
Museum fur Naturkunde (Natural History Museum)
Museum fur Naturkunde (Natural History Museum)
Museum fur Naturkunde (Natural History Museum)
Museum fur Naturkunde (Natural History Museum)
Museum fur Naturkunde (Natural History Museum)
Museum fur Naturkunde (Natural History Museum)
Museum fur Naturkunde (Natural History Museum)
Museum fur Naturkunde (Natural History Museum)
Museum fur Naturkunde (Natural History Museum)
Phone:
+49 30 20938591

Hours:
Sunday10am - 6pm
MondayClosed
Tuesday9:30am - 6pm
Wednesday9:30am - 6pm
Thursday9:30am - 6pm
Friday9:30am - 6pm
Saturday10am - 6pm


The Natural History Museum is a natural history museum located in Berlin, Germany. It exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history and in such domain it is one of three major museums in Germany alongside Naturmuseum Senckenberg in Frankfurt and Museum Koenig in Bonn. German speakers mainly call this museum Museum für Naturkunde since this is the term that can be read in the façade's Museum. It is also called Naturkundemuseum or even Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin so that it can be distinguished from other museums in Germany also named as Museum für Naturkunde. The museum's official name changed through time. It had been originally founded in 1810 as a part of the Berlin University, which changed its name to Humboldt University of Berlin in 1949. This is why the Natural History Museum in Berlin had been known for a long part of its history as the Humboldt Museum, but in 2009 it left the university to join the Leibniz Association. The current official name is Museum für Naturkunde – Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung and the Humboldt name is no longer related to this museum. Furthermore: there is another Humboldt-Museum in Berlin in Tegel Palace dealing with brothers Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt. The museum houses more than 30 million zoological, paleontological, and mineralogical specimens, including more than ten thousand type specimens. It is famous for two exhibits: the largest mounted dinosaur in the world , and a well-preserved specimen of the earliest known bird, Archaeopteryx. The museum's mineral collections date back to the Prussian Academy of Sciences of 1700. Important historic zoological specimens include those recovered by the German deep-sea Valdiva expedition , the German Southpolar Expedition , and the German Sunda Expedition . Expeditions to fossil beds in Tendaguru in former Deutsch Ostafrika unearthed rich paleontological treasures. The collections are so extensive that less than 1 in 5000 specimens is exhibited, and they attract researchers from around the world. Additional exhibits include a mineral collection representing 75% of the minerals in the world, a large meteor collection, the largest piece of amber in the world; exhibits of the now-extinct quagga, huia, and tasmanian tiger, and Bobby the gorilla, a Berlin Zoo celebrity from the 1920s and 1930s.
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