Vivarium (animal husbandry)

A vivarium is an animal keeping facility or a building for the rearing and care of living, mostly cold-blooded small animals in aquariums , terrariums or paludariums . In ancient times, every form of an animal park was called a vivarium (Latin: vivarium = "container for living animals").

Directory of important vivariums in German-speaking countries

Aquarium of the Berlin Zoo

Germany

• Aquarium Berlin in the zoological garden
• Zoo and fossilium Bochum
• Vivarium in the Chemnitz Zoo
• Vivarium Darmstadt
• Aquazoo - Löbbecke Museum Düsseldorf
• Exotarium in Frankfurt Zoo
• Tropical aquarium in Hagenbeck Zoo, Hamburg
• Vivarium in the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover
• Vivarium in the State Museum for Natural History Karlsruhe
• Aquarium in Cologne Zoo
• Aquarium and terrarium in Leipzig Zoo
• Exotarium Oberhof
• Aquarium in the Wilhelma, Stuttgart

Copper striped tweezers in the aquarium

Austria

• House of Nature Salzburg
• Aquarium and terrarium house in Schönbrunn Zoo , Vienna
• Vivarium in the Vienna Prater (until 1945)
• House of the Sea Vienna

Switzerland

• Vivarium at Basel Zoo
• Vivarium in the Dählhölzli zoo , Bern
• Exotarium at Zurich Zoo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Expelled, burned, sold and forgotten. Message from the Standard dated February 19, 2013.