Natural History Museum (Braunschweig)

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State Natural History Museum Braunschweig
Naturhistorisches Museum Braunschweig Logo Dachmarke.jpg
Entrance to the museum
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place Braunschweig , Germany
Art
opening 1754
operator
management
Website
ISIL DE-MUS-027010
Entrance to the museum

The State Natural History Museum in Braunschweig is a museum for the history of zoology in Braunschweig . The state of Lower Saxony is responsible for this .

The museum was opened in 1754 as the ducal art and natural history cabinet. The holdings include scientific collections and display collections , with the scientific study collection being much larger than the publicly accessible part of the permanent exhibition. The study collection includes 3,000 mammals, 50,000 birds, 10,300 bird eggs, 4,000 skulls and skeletons, 500 antlers and horns, 1,000 fish, amphibians and reptiles as well as 80,000 butterflies, 85,000 beetles, 100,000 mussels and snails, 5,000 specimens from the field of palaeontology and much more .

It has a light room with the most valuable pieces of the museum. It also contains several permanent exhibitions on the subjects of aquariums , dioramas (presentation of prepared animals in a setting based on their habitat), birds , insects , invertebrates and fossils .

history

Rear view

The museum emerged from the Ducal Art and Natural History Cabinet founded by Duke Charles I at the suggestion of Daniel de Superville in 1754 . The art collection later became the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum . In 1937 the museum, which was created from the natural history collection, moved into today's brick building via several stations that were less spatially suitable. This was originally built as a college of education , but remained undamaged during the war, so that museum work could soon be resumed.

A series of "dioramas" was created in the early 1950s. From 2012 the foyer of the museum was redesigned. In the course of this construction work, four dioramas were removed, which was controversial in the press and aroused resistance among the population.

management

Today the zoologist Ulrich Joger is director of the museum (as of 2017).

Web links

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

Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 31 ″  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 46 ″  E