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Welcome to nature in the centre of Hamburg

The Museum der Natur Hamburg combines the fascinating world of animals, minerals and fossils at three locations. At the LIB's Hamburg site, we want to inspire our visitors with the diversity and beauty of nature in exhibitions and at events and encourage them to take a sustainable approach to our Earth's ecosystems. Behind the museum doors, our scientists are researching biodiversity and its changes, questioning our collections and engaging in dialogue about the causes and effects of biodiversity change.

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Permanent exhibitions

Zoology

From huge whale skeletons to tiny insects, animals from all over the world can be discovered in all sizes, shapes and colours.

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Geology

Dinosaur fossils, amber insects and prehistoric horses - here you will encounter creatures from a bygone era.

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Mineralogy

Precious stones and rare gold artefacts glitter and sparkle here. Extraterrestrial artefacts can also be found in the exhibition.

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Special exhibitions

In our special exhibitions, we tell new stories and emphasise certain aspects of our research and collections.

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Education & mediation

The museums at the LIB site in Hamburg have all sorts of exciting things to offer children, young people and adults. Whether guided tours through the special exhibitions, age-appropriate tours in private groups for school classes and kindergartens or unique expeditions - the various hands-on programmes turn our guests into researchers themselves.

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About the museum

In our Museum of Nature Hamburg Zoology, Geology and Mineralogy at three locations, visitors can explore the origin of life and its changes on our planet. They immerse themselves in the beauty and diversity of the animal world and the history of the earth and at the same time recognise the fragility of ecosystems under the influence of us humans. The exhibitions in the museums pick up on the scientific findings and future issues that the researchers at the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB) are working on.

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New museum

With the new Natural History Museum, the City of Hamburg and the Leibniz Association are closing a gap in the Hanseatic city's museum landscape. With its central, attractive location in HafenCity, the new museum is intended to build on the history and charisma of the important Natural History Museum, which was destroyed during the Second World War. As a centre for biodiversity and evolution research and a forum for innovative educational and event programmes, it is set to become a beacon for Hamburg as a science location with its valuable collections.

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events

News

  • Museum of Nature Hamburg Press release

    Insight and exchange: New rooms and exhibition opened at the Museum der Natur Hamburg

    12 February 2025

    Since 12 February, two newly designed rooms in the zoological exhibition at the Museum der Natur Hamburg have been inviting visitors to linger, marvel, discover and join in.

  • Museum of Nature Hamburg Press release

    Elbtower: option for new natural history museum in Hamburg

    16 December 2024

    The discussion about the location for the new natural history museum in Hamburg is gathering pace. As confirmed by the Senate of the City of Hamburg, proposals for housing the ‘Evolutioneum’ in the new building on the Elbe bridges are being ...

  • Jemand bemalt mit langer Rolle eine Mauer
    Museum of Nature Hamburg Museum Koenig Bonn Press release Knowledge transfer

    Science meets street art

    09 July 2024

    InUrFaCE (Initiative of Urban Facades Creature Exposition) aims to create facade artworks on biodiversity that "jump out at you". Internationally renowned street artists create the so-called murals together with

  • Hand mit Handy, das orangenen Schmetterling fotografiert
    Research Museum of Nature Hamburg Knowledge transfer

    Wanted: Butterflies in Hamburg - Who's in?

    01 July 2024

    We don't have to travel far to find rare species. There are many places in Hamburg where we can find rare or even endangered animals. Even in densely populated areas such as Hamburg, there is a lack of constant biomonitoring in order to find rare ...

  • Meteoritenforscher Dr. Stefan Peters neben dem Meteoriten
    Museum of Nature Hamburg Press release Collection

    Unique "Elmshorn" meteorite now on display at the Museum der Natur Hamburg

    25 April 2024

    It is a meteorite of superlatives that fell from the sky in Elmshorn near Hamburg on 25 April 2023: from a scientific and cultural-historical point of view, it represents a globally unique piece. At 3.7 kilograms, it is also the largest in

  • Umilaela Arifin in der Herpetologischen Sammlung am Museum der Natur Hamburg
    Research Museum of Nature Hamburg Museum Koenig Bonn

    Women in Herpetology - 50 stories from around the world

    22 November 2023

    Umilaela Arifin works as a herpetologist at the Museum der Natur Hamburg and has already experienced a great deal in her career as a researcher. Now she has teamed up with 49 other female experts from the world of science to publish the book "Women in ...

  • Mann an Ausstellungsstation
    Museum of Nature Hamburg Press release Knowledge transfer

    Expedition Schneeleo" exhibition now at the Museum der Natur Hamburg

    11 October 2023

    Look a snow leopard in the eye, guess its voice, catch prey on a monitor: NABU's "Expedition Snow Leopard" exhibition follows the endangered "spirit of the mountains" with a mixture of analogue and digital hands-on activities.

  • Schmetterling auf Blüte
    Museum of Nature Hamburg Knowledge transfer

    The LIB at the Long Day of Urban Nature Hamburg

    30 May 2023

    We're grabbing our nets, binoculars and wellies - 17 June is once again the LONG DAY OF CITY NATURE in Hamburg. As a close partner of the event, which is initiated by the Loki Schmidt Foundation, the Museum der Natur Hamburg is of course also i

  • Museum der Natur bei Nacht
    Museum of Nature Hamburg Knowledge transfer

    Long Night of Museums: Full house with 4,500 revellers

    24 April 2023

    What a night it was! Scorpions crawled over researchers' hands, minerals glowed in the dark and our dinosaur researcher told us what dinosaurs did at night to pass the time. Almost 4,500 night owls came to the Long Night on 22 April.

  • Bernhard Misof im Museum der Natur Hamburg
    Museum of Nature Hamburg Museum Koenig Bonn

    "Nature can still be saved" - Bernhard Misof on the World Nature Conference

    06 December 2022

    The aim is to save the planet and turn the tide of the biodiversity crisis. From 7 December, government representatives from almost 200 countries will meet in Montreal, Canada, with the aim of forging a pact to protect nature. LIB Director General

  • Panoramablick Natur
    Research Museum of Nature Hamburg Museum Koenig Bonn

    Frankfurt Declaration: Working together for biodiversity

    02 December 2022

    One week before the start of the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP15) in Montreal, an alliance of German scientific and non-governmental organisations calls in its "FRANKFURT DECLARATION", published today, for the protection of biodiversity in the ...

  • Neues Naturkundemuseum in Hamburg
    Museum of Nature Hamburg Press release

    New home for natural history in Hamburg

    29 November 2022

    The new building of the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB) will be built on construction site 51 in HafenCity. The LEUCHTTURMPROJEKT for the world of science and museums will offer innovative exhibitions as well as space for research and ...

  • Panoramablick Natur
    Research Museum of Nature Hamburg Museum Koenig Bonn Press release Collection

    Berlin Declaration: For the future of humanity

    20 May 2022

    Thirty years after the first World Summit on Nature in Rio de Janeiro, the loss of biodiversity and global climate change are the greatest and most pressing challenges of the future. Nothing less than our very existence is at stake. U

  • Prof. Dr. Bernhard Misof, Generaldirektor LIB; Sabine Riewenherm, Präsidentin des Bundesamtes für Naturschutz (BfN); Katharina Fegebank, Zweite Bürgermeisterin und Senatorin für Wissenschaft und Forschung Hamburg; Dr. Martin Husemann, LIB-Insektenspezialist und Projektleiter der Ausstellung
    Museum of Nature Hamburg Press release Knowledge transfer

    "Multifaceted insects": Travelling exhibition opens in Hamburg

    23 March 2022

    Dazzlingly beautiful, successful, useful - and endangered. Although insects do a great deal for us humans, we are responsible for their decline. From today, 23 March 2022, the travelling exhibition "Multifaceted insects: Diversity I G

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