Decision for a new natural history museum
11 May 2020
Photo: UHH, RZZ/MCC, Mentz
Walrus "Antje" is a crowd puller at the Zoological Museum of the University of Hamburg. In a modern natural history museum, she too would find a new home.
Hamburg is getting a new natural history museum. This decision was announced by Science Senator Katharina Fegebank on Friday evening, May 8, 2020, at a press conference as part of Hamburg's coalition negotiations.
In it, she emphasized that the SPD and the Greens had agreed on the establishment of a new natural history museum in which the collections would be further developed and appropriate exhibition space created. "We have made a very clear commitment that we want to go down this path and create a modern natural history museum," said Katharina Fegebank.
The decision on whether to admit CeNak to the Leibniz Association is due at the end of June. At that time, the Joint Science Conference (GWK) will discuss the merger of CeNak and the Zoological Research Museum Alexander König in Bonn (ZFMK) as well as the establishment of a Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change.
NDR recording of the Hamburg press conference (from minute 4 on the Natural History Museum):
https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/hamburg/Koalitionsverhandlungen-Investition-in-Bildung,hamj95086.html
