Museum for Nature and Environment Lübeck
The Museum for Nature and Environment of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck is a natural history museum in Lübeck that was first opened in 1893 .
The museum is located in the immediate vicinity of Lübeck Cathedral in a new building from the 1960s and is structurally connected to the cathedral by a cloister . The original museum building of the Museum am Dom was destroyed in the bombing raid on Lübeck in March 1942 .
The museum was originally based on the collections of the natural scientist Johann Julius Walbaum . Today it shows in particular exhibits on the nature and environment of Lübeck and Holstein .
A skeleton of a sperm whale is shown in the inner courtyard of the cathedral . In the Museum for Nature and Environment, fossil baleen whales from the lower Neogene (Miocene), which come from a gravel pit near Groß Pampau, are presented. In May 2008, the nature experience exhibition on the regional waters of Wakenitz , Trave and the Bay of Lübeck was opened with the title "In the realm of Aquarius".
The museum is sponsored by the Friends of the Museum for Nature and Environment Lübeck e. V. supports.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 51 ′ 38 " N , 10 ° 41 ′ 13" E