Copenhagen Zoological Museum
The Copenhagen Zoological Museum (Zoologisk Museum) , together with the Botanical and Geological Museums, forms the Danish State Natural History Museum in Copenhagen (Universitsparken 15). It belongs to the University of Copenhagen .
Its origins go back to the rarities and natural objects cabinet of Ole Worm (1588–1654), which was partly bought up by the Danish King Friedrich III after his death and incorporated into his art chamber. In 1862, the Royal Natural History Museum (the successor to the Kunstkammer) and the University's Zoological Collection became the Zoological Museum with a new building in Krystalgade, which was opened to the public in 1870. In 1967 the museum, the collections of which had been relocated and the exhibition was out of date, was closed and in 1970 a new museum was opened in the university park.
The museum has around 10 million specimens of animals, representing about a tenth of the known multicellular animal species. In addition to Denmark and Greenland and the Arctic, deep sea, the Philippines , the Bismarck Islands and Solomon Islands , a large whale skeleton, South American butterflies and mammals, East Africa (amphibians, reptiles, terrestrial arthropods) are some of the focal points .
The museum also houses the type collection of Johann Christian Fabricius with 8000 species (from around 1800). A special collection is the tissue bank with DNA material especially from birds (over 3000 species) and African mammals.
The museum is the center of Danish bird ringing.
Attached is a library with over 15,000 volumes and 750 current journals.
The university's other natural history collections are in the Geological Museum (Geologisk Museum, Øster Voldgade) and in the Botanical Museum, which is located in the Botanical Garden (Botanisk Have) .
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Coordinates: 55 ° 42 ′ 9.1 ″ N , 12 ° 33 ′ 32.7 ″ E