Museum of Natural History Magdeburg

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The Museum für Naturkunde Magdeburg showed its first exhibitions as early as 1875, making it the city's oldest museum that still exists today. It has been housed in the building of the former Kaiser Friedrich Museum since 1945. It currently forms a two-part house there together with the Museum of Cultural History .

In line with the focus of the collection, the Natural History Museum has often shown exhibitions on the natural environment of Saxony-Anhalt in the past , including the local flora and fauna, geology , mineral and fossil deposits , the development of the Ice Age and prehistory . The permanent exhibition, which was rebuilt from 2006 to 2015, is dedicated to the topics of biodiversity and evolution , habitats in Saxony-Anhalt as well as climate change and evolution in the Ice Age.

history

The Natural History Museum goes back to the collections of the Natural Science Association in Magdeburg , which was founded in 1869 . The first public exhibition of collection objects followed in 1875 in the rooms of the Realgymnasium on Brandenburger Straße.

The museum building on Domplatz, in which the City Museum of Natural History and Prehistory was located until 1945.

The association's natural science museum moved into the building of the newly opened Magdeburg City Museum at Domplatz 5 in 1893 and, in 1904, when the association was donated to the city, it became the property of the city. From 1931 Alfred Bogen was director of the museum.

Parts of the collections of the Städtisches Museum für Naturkunde escaped the destruction caused by the bombing raids, which destroyed the museum building on Domplatz in February 1945. After the war, the remaining collections were relocated to the building of today's cultural history museum in Otto-von-Guericke-Straße , where a permanent scientific exhibition was opened again from 1948.

exhibition

The part of the permanent exhibition, which was newly opened in 2009, is dedicated to the subject of "Miracles of Life: Species Diversity in the Sign of Evolution". Around 1400 individual objects are presented in two halls.

The front hall houses the geological- palaeontological part of the exhibition. In the center and on the left, the origin of life and, with special consideration of the vertebrates , the animals ' shore leave are discussed. On the right side fossil evidence for the evolution of different animal groups, including sponges , corals , echinoderms , cephalopods and sharks , as well as land plant fossils are exhibited.

The rear room is dedicated to the diversity of today's wildlife. The largest exhibition space is occupied by the central podium with large specimens of mammals and birds, followed by life-size whale sculptures towards the left wall . Several wall showcases are dedicated to individual groups of animals such as insects , mollusks , amphibians , reptiles and the topic of biodiversity and extinction .

The remaining rooms of the permanent exhibition were opened by 2015.

Collections

The holdings of the collection are largely based on private collections donated to the Natural History Museum. In addition to a mineralogical- petrographic collection that includes over 11,500 inventoried items, including around 1000 rocks, and a paleontological collection that includes several thousand fossils, including from the Carbon Age Magdeburg Grauwacke , the Tertiary Magdeburg Greensand and the Ice Age river gravel of the Magdeburg Urstromtal , There is a botanical collection comprising around 10,000 herbarized plants and a zoological collection of significant size. Insects, mussel and snail shells, alcohol preparations from lower vertebrates, clutches as well as bird and mammal preparations and skeletons form the focus of the zoological collection. Native animals make up a large proportion.

Publications

The series of publications of the Natural History Museum, which has been titled Treatises and Reports for Natural History since 1993 , goes back to the annual reports of the Natural Science Association and the treatises of the Natural Science Association , which were published in the 19th century.

literature

  • H. Pellmann, C. Heinemann and D. Weyer: The natural history collections in the Museum of Natural History Magdeburg. In: E. Görgner, D. Heidecke, D. Klaus, B. Nicolai and K. Schneider (eds.): Cultural heritage nature: Natural history museums and collections in Saxony-Anhalt. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle, 2002, pp. 69–85, ISBN 3-89812-156-9
  • H. Pellmann: On the history of the Museum für Naturkunde in the period from 1945 to 1990. In: M. Puhle (Hrsg.): 100 years of the Magdeburg Cultural History Museum. Magdeburger Museumsschriften Nr. 9, Magdeburger Museen, Magdeburg, 2006, pp. 171–200, ISBN 3-930030-85-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to self-disclosure on the homepage of the Magdeburg museums: [1]
  2. ↑ a b according to self-disclosure on the homepage of the Magdeburg museums: [2]
  3. ^ H. Pellmann, C. Heinemann and D. Weyer: The natural history collections in the Museum of Natural History Magdeburg. In: E. Görgner, D. Heidecke, D. Klaus, B. Nicolai and K. Schneider (eds.): Kulturerbe Natur - Natural history museums and collections in Saxony-Anhalt. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle, 2002, pp. 69–71
  4. ^ H. Pellmann: On the history of the Museum für Naturkunde in the period from 1945 to 1990. In: M. Puhle (Hrsg.): 100 years of the Magdeburg Cultural History Museum. Magdeburger Museumsschriften Nr. 9, Magdeburger Museen, Magdeburg, 2006, pp. 172–177
  5. ^ H. Pellmann, C. Heinemann and D. Weyer: The natural history collections in the Museum of Natural History Magdeburg. In: E. Görgner, D. Heidecke, D. Klaus, B. Nicolai and K. Schneider (eds.): Kulturerbe Natur - Natural history museums and collections in Saxony-Anhalt. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle, 2002, pp. 71–84
  6. ↑ see Pellmann et al. (2002), p. 84; Issues No. 31 and 32 can be downloaded from the homepage of the Natural Science Association in Magdeburg: Archived copy ( Memento of the original from November 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nwv-1869.de

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