Zoological Collection

Collection

The nine research collections in the Museum of Nature - Zoology house more than ten million scientific objects. Together they form one of the most significant natural history museum collections in Germany. Founded in 1843 as the Hamburg Museum of Natural History, the Museum was later renamed the State Institute of Zoology and then the Zoological Museum Hamburg (ZMH) before it was finally incorporated into Universität Hamburg in 1969 and is now as the Museum of Nature - Zoology part of the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change.