Naturhistorisches Museum (Braunschweig)

The Natural History Museum in Brunswick government is a museum of the history of zoology in Braunschweig. Agency is the State of Lower Saxony.

The museum was opened in 1754 as the Duke's art and natural history cabinet. The collection includes scientific collections and display collections, the scientific study collection has a much greater extent than the public part of the permanent exhibition. The study collection includes 3,000 mammals, 50,000 birds, 10,300 bird eggs, 4,000 skulls and skeletons, 500 antlers and antlers, 1,000 fish, amphibians, reptiles, and 80,000 butterflies, 85,000 beetles, 100,000 shells and snails, 5,000 specimens from the field of paleontology, and more.

It has a light room with the most valuable pieces in the museum. In addition, it also contains several permanent exhibitions related to the aquarium, dioramas (presentation stuffed animals in their habitat in imitation of scenery ), birds, insects, invertebrates and fossils.

History

The museum is the result of the Ducal art and natural history cabinet, founded at the suggestion of Daniel de Superville of Duke Charles I., 1754. From the art collection was later the Herzog Anton Ulrich- Museum. More spatially less suitable stations resulting from the Museum of Natural History Collection moved in 1937 the present brick building. This was originally built as the College of Education, was in the war intact, so that the museum work could be resumed soon.

In the early 1950s they developed the display of " dioramas ", the construction of stuffed animals in a deep perspective, semi-natural environment. This presentation was then new; Today they are often found in natural history and science museums. Today, the zoologist Ulrich Joger is director of the museum (as of 2013).