Hamburg Zoological Museum

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Hamburg Zoological Museum

The Zoological Museum Hamburg , part of the Center for Natural History (CeNak) of the University of Hamburg , contains the fourth largest collection of animal preparations in Germany.

The Zoological Museum of the University of Hamburg emerged from the Natural History Museum , which was founded in 1843 and whose building was destroyed in the Second World War. The exhibits also include the walrus Antje , the former mascot of the NDR .

Groomed walrus lady "Antje" in the Hamburg Zoological Museum

Collections

Unique exhibit of a female narwhal skull with 2 teeth from 1684

More than 10 million copies are archived in the museum's scientific collections:

  • entomology
    • In the Chelicerata, Myriapoda and Pararthropoda collections about 860,000 specimens and 36,000 microscopic specimens, mainly mites.
    • Insecta collection with more than 80,000 species (more than 3 million individuals).
  • Herpetology
    • 3520 species (50,000 individuals).
  • Ichthyology
    • 9,000 species (about 74,000 pieces)
  • Malacology
    • About 10,000 species (120,000 series).
  • Lower animals I
    • The more detailed breakdown is not yet complete.
  • Lower animals II
  • Ornithology
    • 3,500 bird species (approx. 56,000 preparations and 15,000 eggs).
  • Mammals
    • 23,000 preparations.

History and future

The Natural Science Association in Hamburg set up the first natural history museum in Hamburg in 1843. It was stocked by citizens of the Hanseatic city. This distinguishes the Hamburg collection from that of many other natural history museums, which were usually founded by aristocrats . A very old exhibit is the skull of a narwhal with two tusks. It was shot in 1684 by the captain and whaler Dirk Petersen .

The building of the Natural History Museum was completed in 1891 and was destroyed by aerial bombs in 1943. It had been in the immediate vicinity of today's main train station, opposite the Museum of Art and Crafts . A large part of the exhibits had been rescued to nearby subway shafts in good time.

The University of Hamburg gradually cut funding for the museum in the 2000s and has since endeavored to inspire private donors to build and operate a future Hamburg natural history museum in which the collections would be united under one roof.

Web links

Commons : Zoological Museum Hamburg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Self-presentation ( Memento of the original from August 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at www.uni-hamburg.de (accessed on August 1, 2010) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-hamburg.de
  2. ↑ Entomology Collection ( Memento from December 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Herpetology Collection ( Memento from December 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Ichthyology Collection ( Memento from December 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Malacology Collection ( Memento from December 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Collection of Niedere Tiere I ( Memento from December 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ^ Collection of Niedere Tiere II ( Memento from December 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Ornithology Collection ( Memento from December 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ The Mammal Collection ( Memento from July 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Angela Grosse: Zoological Museum: A Museum for the Future. In: zeit.de. December 9, 2012, accessed December 9, 2014 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 4.4 "  N , 9 ° 58 ′ 44.3"  E