Digital offers

Welcome to the digital program of the Eocene exhibition! Here you can stroll through the exhibition with the click of a mouse even when the doors are closed. In addition to the digital museum tour, we provide a behind-the-scenes look with accompanying videos - background reports, a making-of, and guided tours with LIB experts. Stay up to date here. We'll provide information both here and on our social media channels about events and latest developments regarding the opening of our museums in times of Corona pandemic restrictions.

Virtual tour

Click through the special exhibition and enter the Museum of Nature - Zoology even with the doors closed! Follow the line on the floor to experience the entire tour virtually in 360 degrees.

Greetings

On the occasion of the new special exhibition "Eocene - At the Beginning of Our World", we would like to welcome:

Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Dieter Lenzen, President of the University of Hamburg

Katharina Fegebank, Second Mayor and Senator for Science, Research and Equality Hamburg

Prof. Dr. Matthias Glaubrecht

View into the science

Dr. Ulrich Kotthoff, director of the Museum of Nature - Geology, explains how what we can learn from climate research on the Eocene for our present.

Guided tour of the exhibition

Dr. Ulrich Kotthoff, director of the Museum of Nature - Geology, and Dr. Viktor Hartung, exhibition conception, guide through the exhibition and present its highlights.

Making-Of

See how an exhibition is created and learn what inspired the exhibition makers in their work.

Further contents

The changing world

The past 120 million years of the earth's history in just five minutes: Continents collide, incredible creatures emerge and pass away, meteorites strike the earth, the climate fluctuates between hothouse and ice age, and human history takes its course.

Ulrich Riller - Dinosaur Killer: Eocene Experts

In this exciting episode of the animated film series "Ulrich Riller - Dinosaur Killer", geoscientists Ulrich Riller and Gerhard Schmiedl visit the Eocene. The special exhibition on the Eocene is also presented in the talk that follows.

Back to the Future - Exploring Past Climate

How do researchers find out what the climate was like at the time of the Eocene? How can boreholes be used to reconstruct the plant life of prehistoric times? What can insects encased in amber tell us about our future? The video answers these questions and many more. It is part of a video series on climate research as part of a cooperation between LIB, the Institute of Geology and the Cluster of Excellence CLICCS.