Zoological Museum Zurich
| Zoological Museum of the University of Zurich | |
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 Entrance to the Zoological Museum |
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| Data | |
| place | Karl-Schmid-Strasse 4 8006 Zurich Switzerland 
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| opening | 1914 |
| operator | University of Zurich |
| management | Isabel Klusman |
| GLAM | CH-001629 |
| KGS | 8487 |
| Website | www.zm.uzh.ch |
The Zoological Museum of the University of Zurich is part of the University of Zurich and houses the publicly accessible part of an extensive collection of animal specimens and skeletons. The main part of the collection, which is not open to the public, is housed in the University of Zurich-Irchel, where the management of the Zoological Museum is also based.
Location
The museum is located at Karl-Schmid-Strasse 4 in the main building of the University of Zurich, which was built in 1914 . The zoological exhibition has shared its exhibition space with the Zurich Paleontological Museum since 1956, both in terms of space and content . Admission is free. The museum can be easily reached on foot from the city center, and the hill between Central and Polyterrasse can be overcome with the Polybahn .
history
The history of the Zurich Zoological Collection and thus that of the Zoological Museum began in the 17th century in the private collections of Zurich citizens; these included, for example, the exhibits by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer and Johannes von Muralt .
In 1833, after numerous enlargements and relocations of the individual collections within Zurich, these collections were combined with others from the canton and those of the Natural Research Society in Zurich for university teaching purposes and housed centrally. The exhibits became the property of the canton. In 1908 the university took over the city and canton collections. The museum opened in 1914 in the central area of the university.
In 1956 the zoological institute of the university was reorganized into three independent institutes: the Zoological Museum, the Paleontological Museum and the Zoological Institute. The paleontological museum was given rooms within the zoological museum. The non-public part of the collection was moved in 1979 together with the Zoological Institute and the management of the collection to the newly built campus of the university in Zurich-Irchel.
Between 1984 and 1991, the original Karl Moser building was redesigned by the architect Ernst Gisel , including the former atrium, and the museum area was enlarged in the process.
exhibition
The museum is divided into two levels. On the ground floor, the focus is on animal specimens and skeletons of Swiss fauna, including extinct large animals, predators, reptiles, birds (with 280 different bird songs), amphibians, cloven-hoofed animals, fish, bats, insectivores and rodents. Small collections of crabs, spiders, insects and mollusks can also be viewed microscopically here. Special exhibitions take place regularly. In the basement, marine animals and animal species are shown zoogeographically according to their origin. The museum is well suited for children and offers many opportunities for interaction such as microscopy, quizzes, playing birdsong, etc.
On the occasion of Conrad Gessner's 500th birthday , the Zoological Museum held a special exhibition from March to September 2016.
A giant sloth , shown on the ground floor of the museum from 2000 to 2019
Skeletons of woolly mammoth and giant deer
Multimedia show on the topic of "Ice Age"
Unicorn in the special exhibition for Conrad Gessner
Sea monk and lion, special exhibition
See also
- Commons : Zoological Museum Zurich - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- List of collections and museums at the University of Zurich
- Jacky (chimpanzee)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the history is taken from the official website of the Zoological Museum Zurich: History
- ↑ Information on the exhibition can be found on the official website of the Zoological Museum Zurich: Virtual tour
- ↑ Website Zoological Museum Zurich ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Stroking the darling to death , Tages-Anzeiger, June 21, 2019
