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4 MuSeuM
The dinosaur hall
Für nAturKunDe
The museum’s collection stores 30 million objects,
from fossils and preserved animal specimens to
minerals and up to 4.5 billion-year-old meteorites.
A particular highlight is the world’s largest
dinosaur displayed in a museum. In the East Wing
a large research collection of formaldehyde-preserved
specimens is accessible to the public.
Permanent exhibition
Evolution in Activity
Life is an obvious and yet unique phenomenon in
our universe, as far as we know. Closely linked to
life is evolution; the exhibition conveys how evolution
is everywhere and how the cosmos, Earth and
life are all connected.
temporary exhibition
Kingdom of Elephants – A World of Fossils in
Europe
The treasure rescued by archaeologists from the
Neumark-Nord brown coal excavation pit near Halle
in 1985 is around 200 000 years old. Relics of a
whole sea habitat had been retained in the fossil
deposit. At the centre of the exhibition is the skull
and further remains of 70 Eurasian straight-tusked
elephants.
The reconstruction of a European straight-tusked elephant in the exhibition »Elefantenreich«
2.00–6.00 pm
Children’s activity
Exploration, discovery and handicrafts in the
exhibitions and in the microscopy centre
6.00 pm–2.00 am
Guided tours (in German), Talks, Activities
Old Berliners and immigrants in the Museum
für Naturkunde
Berlin is celebrating and the museum too. The history
of the museum is closely bound to the history
of the German capital. The museum not only received
exactly 775 objects from the Berlin nature
researcher Alexunder von Humboldt but there
are also legacies to discover from the kaisers,
from the wars and »rooms without ears« (i.e. that
were not monitored by the Stasi). Many original
Berlin species are on show in the collection, but
also famous »immigrants« like the Brachiosaurus
brancai and Berlin’s Archaeopteryx.
6.00–11.00 pm
Guided tours (in German), registration from 5.45
in the dinosaur hall
Backstage: The Scientific Collections of the
Museum für Naturkunde
History and stories from the Museum für Naturkunde
10.00 pm–12.00 am
Music
Cocktails and musical finale in the dinosaur hall
with DJ Grammophon
The detailed programme is available from August
2012 at www.naturkandemuseum-berlin.de.
For the first time a guided tour for the blind will
also be available.
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