Zoological Museum Göttingen
The Zoological Museum of the University of Göttingen is part of the Georg-August University of Göttingen and houses the publicly accessible part of an extensive research collection of animal specimens and skeletons . The museum is part of the Johann Friedrich Blumenbach Institute for Zoology and Anthropology . It is located in the former zoological institute of the university on Berliner Straße and therefore very close to the Göttingen train station .
According to its own information, the Zoological Museum houses over 100,000 prepared animals in glasses, boxes and boxes. On average, the collection is therefore rather small ( Überseemuseum Bremen = around 1 million specimens, Zoological Museum Hamburg = around 10 million specimens). The collection items include evidence of newly discovered species ( holotypes ) and rare or extinct species from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries from many parts of the world.
history
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach , a naturalist and founder of anthropology , was the museum's first curator. This was founded as the Royal Academic Museum in 1773. Blumenbach was also responsible for the zoological collections, which moved to the newly built Natural History Museum on Berliner Straße in Göttingen in 1878 . Thanks to good relationships with explorers of the respective epochs, the collections could be continuously expanded, which also increased their importance.
Curators of the Zoological Museum Göttingen:
- 1773–1840 Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
- 1840–1861 Arnold Adolph Berthold
- 1861–1870 Wilhelm Moritz Keferstein
- 1870–1873 Carl Claus
- 1873–1920 Ernst Ehlers
- 1920–1937 Alfred Kühn
structure
The exhibitions in the Zoological Museum cover the subject areas
- Native wildlife
- Evolution and system of animals
- Bones and skeletons of vertebrates
Special exhibits
- The "Göttinger Sperm Whale". This is the skeleton of an approximately 18-year-old sperm whale bull , which is 17 meters long and takes up almost a quarter of the exhibition space.
- An alcohol supplement and an X-ray of the Rat King .
literature
- Rainer Willmann: The Zoological Museum of the University of Göttingen. In: “Completely designed for studying.” The museums, collections and gardens of the University of Göttingen. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3892444528 , pp. 249-259.
Web links
- Reopening in 2022: Zoological Museum , uni-goettingen.de
- Rainer Willmann: Present, History and Future of the Zoological Museum of the University of Göttingen. , uni-goettingen.de
- Theater hands over animal preparations to museum on ndr.de
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