Record number of visitors to the CeNak museums

24 January 2020

Photo: UHH/CeNak, Reiss

Record year 2019: Never before have so many visitors passed through the entrance of the Zoological Museum.

Visitor numbers at CeNak climbed to a record high last year. More and more children and adults want to experience the exhibitions at the Zoological, Mineralogical and Geological-Paleontological Museum. In 2019, a total of 107,055 visitors were welcomed there.

While the Zoological Museum counted 61,400 guests in 2014, the year CeNak was founded, their number rose to 91,566 in 2019, including participants in 1,000 guided tours and numerous events such as "Literature Meets Nature." The Mineralogical Museum recorded an increase in visitors from 6,345 to 9,689 during this period, while a continuously growing interest in learning more about the emergence and passing of species and habitats on Earth can also be observed in the Geological-Paleontological Museum, with approximately 5,800 visitors.

For all the joy of this influx, the Zoological Museum in particular sometimes reaches the limits of its capacity. This is one reason why CeNak is pursuing the idea of a large, new research museum for the 21st century. In a multifunctional building, the areas of exhibition, collection and research are to be interlinked and the study of nature, man and the environment made comprehensively tangible and open to discussion. Since the Natural History Museum was destroyed in World War II, Hamburg has lacked a central showcase for the natural sciences.

More information on the planned natural history museum of the 21st century, an "Evolutioneum" can be found at here.