Natural history museum of the University of Göttingen

The Natural History Museum in Göttingen was a successor institution to the Royal Academic Museum of the University of Göttingen , for which a museum building that has been preserved to this day was built on Berliner Strasse in Göttingen from 1873 to 1878 .

The museum was originally divided into the four departments of mineralogy / geology, zoology, anthropology and ethnography. At the beginning of the 20th century, the back of the building was supplemented by further wings, which in particular contain a lecture hall, teaching and study rooms as well as laboratories and offices. By the end of the 1930s, the anthropological, ethnological and geoscientific collections had moved out of the museum. Since then, only the University's Zoological Museum and its extensive collections have been located in the house, which has resulted in a major architectural overhaul with built-in components inside the old building.

Since 2017, the building has been refurbished in accordance with historical monuments so that it can be reopened as a new university and science museum under the name Forum Wissen Göttingen .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christine Nawa: Collecting for Science? The Academic Museum Göttingen (1773–1840). Göttingen 2010; Master's thesis available online
2. ^ Rainer Willmann: History of the Zoological Museum. Retrieved September 4, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Knowledge Forum: the future Göttingen Knowledge Museum. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, accessed on September 4, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Museum for Science is being built in Göttingen on September 23, 2018 on ndr.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 3 "  N , 9 ° 55 ′ 35"  E