Zoological Collection Rostock

The Zoological Collection Rostock is a scientific university collection, which is affiliated with the Department of General and Systematic Zoology of the University of Rostock. The collection was founded in 1775 by Oluf Gerhard Tychsen with a focus on biodiversity and evolutionary research serves teaching and research. Parts of the collection are also open to the public.

History

1775, the Zoological Collection of the Orientalists and Chief Librarian of the University of Rostock Oluf Gerhard Tychsen was established using older objects. 1789, the collections were housed as part of the " Academic museum" in the White College in Rostock, in 1844, the collection moved after the takeover of parts of the Grand Ducal Collection of Ludwig pleasure in the University Place first in 1880 involved the collection rooms at University Square 2 at which the stocks still are. Since 2002 there has been on the ground floor of the building, a showroom, which is open to the public.

The collection currently has about 140,000 sets of document pieces. Among the special collection is series of Wassermollusken (about 14,000 ), bristle worms (about 2,500 ), Fishing ( about 2500 ), birds (about 2,400 ), scorpions (approx. 1000), and crustaceans are (so far about 1,000, in the expansion ). Other priorities are special collections of FP Müller ( Blattlauspräparate ), A. Raddatz (Coleoptera, Diptera ), A. Wendt ( Coleoptera), S. Braun ( Coleoptera) and OJH Karl ( Diptera). Also to be found in the collection of numerous teaching models, including the rare glass models of Blaschkabrüder.

A well-known single object is the Rostock " Arrow Stork" from 1822 which is the oldest evidence of the long-distance train of birds.