CeNak now becomes the Hamburg LIB site
1 July 2021
Photo: LIB
Bye-Bye CeNak - Moin LIB! With the transition of the Center for Natural History (CeNak) of the University of Hamburg into the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB), we are launching a new website: As of July 1, 2021, you will find the latest information on research, exhibitions, events and the development of a new natural history museum for Hamburg at www.leibniz-lib.de - also from our new location in Bonn
Following the decision of the Joint Science Conference (GWK), CeNak will now merge with the Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig - Leibniz Institute for Animal Biodiversity (Museum Koenig), Bonn, in the LIB. This ensures that the valuable scientific collections will continue to be adequately housed and researched, and paves the way for the establishment of a new natural history museum for Hamburg.
The LIB belongs to the group of eight large natural history research museums of the Leibniz Association. We continue to dedicate ourselves to the study of biological diversity as well as its change and carry the results to the broader society in an educational way. In order to better understand the current mass extinction of flora and fauna, our researchers - together with our colleagues in Bonn - are searching for correlations and causes of changes in nature. Our goal remains to develop solutions for the preservation of ecosystems and species in order to maintain the basis of current life and to identify behaviors of us humans that permanently change and damage nature.
CeNak was established since 2014 within the framework of the University of Hamburg and under the leadership of founding director Prof. Dr. Matthias Glaubrecht. From the beginning, the goal was to develop an innovative research museum, an Evolutioneum, based on CeNak. With a new museum for nature, Hamburg wants to continue the great tradition of the Natural History Museum, which was destroyed in the Second World War. In perspective, the Evolutioneum will continue the work done so far by CeNak within the LIB and develop it further on a larger scale. The existing Hamburg museums of zoology, mineralogy and geology-paleontology will be retained in their form for the time being and are to be merged into the Evolutioneum in the future.
New Website: www.leibniz-lib.de
