Botanical Museum Greifswald

The Botanical Museum Greifswald is a circa 1850 by Julius Münter -founded institution, which now belongs to the Botanical Institute of the University of Greifswald. The museum is the largest botanical collection in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern and acts as Landesherbarium.

History

The oldest evidence of a herbarium in Greifswald can be found in the 17th century, when the Botanical Garden under Samuel Gustav Wilcke was established. Between 1845 and 1855 the Botanical Museum was founded by Julius Münter, the most amassed objects from the former New -Western Pomerania with his assistants Hermann Zabel and Louis Holtz. By exchanging objects came from other regions to Greifswald, also an extensive collection of models has been created for educational purposes.

The collection includes various naturalia such as woods, plants, drugs and preparations Artificialia as models, tools and wall panels. The core of the collection is on the one hand the herbarium with about 300,000 supporting evidence and the teaching collection with many models.

The Herbarium Higher Plants ( GFW ) contains evidence of many extinct and endangered plants and is also the largest of its kind in the state. The library contains about 250,000 documents ferns and flowering plants 30 000 17,000 documents algae moss documents and 8000 lichens. For teaching collection includes numerous models of flowers modeler Robert Brendel and Paul Osterloh, and the " Arnoldsche fruit Cabinet" with models of 214 (originally 455 ) fruits. The models of fruit Cabinets were manufactured between 1856 to 1899 in Gotha porcelain composition mass.