Museum of Natural History (Dortmund)

The Natural History Museum, 2013

The Museum für Naturkunde is a natural history museum in Dortmund .

history

The origins of the museum lie in a school collection of the senior real teacher Edgar Weinert around 1900. With the help of the Natural Science Association of the City of Dortmund, a separate house was made available for the collection in 1912 and the museum opened. Weinert became the first director of the newly opened museum. In 1934 the company moved to the city center in the immediate vicinity of today's town hall on Friedensplatz . The Second World War and the bombing raids on Dortmund hit the museum hard. Around 90% of all exhibits were destroyed.

On May 24, 1980 the museum moved again. A new building was moved into on Fredenbaum .

The museum has been closed for modernization work since September 2014. The reopening was planned for 2016, but has been postponed several times. After all, the plan was to start setting up the new exhibition after the building work was completed, so that it could reopen by September 2019 at the latest. But in 2019 the opening was postponed again, now to 2020.

exhibition

Entrance portal

Interior of the museum

The museum's collection focuses on exhibits from the fields of biology , geology and palaeontology .

The zoological exhibition gives an overview of the biological systematics with a focus on the local fauna and flora . A special show is dedicated to mushrooms . The aquarium is worth seeing. The fish world that lives in the Möhnesee is shown in the 90,000 liter tank .

The geoscientific collection provides an overview of ores, minerals and sedimentary rocks . The museum's mineral collection shows minerals from North Rhine-Westphalia on the one hand and finds from Tsumeb in Namibia on the other . The paleontological department is home to a wide variety of fossils , particularly ammonites . Some of the exhibits come from the old-tertiary oil shale mine in Messel near Darmstadt.

The miner's work can be explored in a show mine in the museum cellar. The museum also has a gemstone cutting shop.

Another focus of the Museum für Naturkunde is museum education. There is a large number of offers for different age groups.

Exhibits (examples)

• Lifelike replica of two dinosaurs ( Iguanodon )
• Exhibition on the origin of life
• Dermoplasty of a giant Aldabra tortoise
• Skeleton of a tuna several meters long
• Collection of native species. ( Ducks , owls , seabirds , birds of prey , songbirds )
• Exhibition Fungi
• Evolution of man
• Aquarium
• Skeleton of a primeval horse from the Messel Pit
• Skeleton of a cave bear
• Gemstone collection
• meteorite

See also

• List of natural history museums
• List of museums in Dortmund

Web links

Commons : Museum of Natural History  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Museum of Natural Science
• Description of this sight on the route of industrial culturehttp: //vorlage.rik.test/~6~10640
• Detailed article about the museum on Ruhrbarone

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Oliver Volmerich: Natural History Museum opens three years late , Ruhr Nachrichten, April 27, 2018.
2. ↑ Oliver Volmerich: Why the Natural History Museum hasn't reopened in 2019 , Ruhr Nachrichten, January 14, 2019.
3. ↑ http://www.dortmund.de/de/freizeit_und_kultur/museen/museum_fuer_naturkunde/museum_1/aquarium_und_terrarien/index.html

Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 9 ″  N , 7 ° 27 ′ 28 ″  E