The Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig

is a research museum of the Leibniz Association

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Our blue planet
The living network
Discovering and explaining biodiversity - this is the main emphasis of Museum Koenig. The permanent exhibition offers the visitors a genuine nature experience based on naturalistic ecosystem displays.
Permanent exhibition
Leibniz Institute for
Animal Biodiversity
Our research focusses on phylogenetics, speciation, molecular biology and biogeography of terrestrial vertebrates and insects.
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News

Major indexing service reverses decision to suppress two taxonomic journals
[30.07.2020] In late June, Clarivate suppressed 33 journals from its Journal Citation Reports, which meant denying them an Impact Factor, for high levels of self-citation that boosted their scores and ranking. Now Clarivate announced it was reversing its...
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Taxonomic vandalism
[23.07.2020] In fact, Spracklandus is the center of a heated debate within the world of taxonomy—one that could help determine the future of an entire scientific field. And Raym
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Insect wings evolved from legs, mayfly genome suggests
[23.07.2020] Along rivers and streams around the world, mayflies are a rite of spring. The small insects lead double lives, with the young thriving in water and the adults emerging around June for just a few hours to mate and quickly die. Because of their...
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Events

Contact

Address
Zoological Research Museum
Alexander Koenig
Adenauerallee 160
53113 Bonn, Germany

Phone and e-mail
Phone: +49 228 9122-0 (general)
Fax: +49 228 9122-212
e-mail: info [at] leibniz-zfmk.de

Staff
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Museum

Special exhibitions

The Coast - Dividing Edge and Habitat ## EXTENDED ##
Photo exhibition
12.05.2020 to 23.08.2020
In an endless interplay of water and land, coastal regions form what is probably the most diverse landscape forms on our planet. We find fine sandy or coarse gravel beaches of different colours, as...
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Object Worlds as a Cosmos ## EXTENDED ##
Special exhibition
14.11.2019 to 23.08.2020
In the spirit of Alexander von Humboldt, they represent a networked universe of object worlds, which includes the specialist disciplines from the humanities and natural sciences. On the basis of...
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BIG, BIGGER, DINOSAURS ## EXTENDED ##
Special exhibition
28.09.2019 to 18.04.2021
The exhibition presents the current state of research on these questions and at the same time explains the almost detective methods with which scientists answer questions from a long time ago.
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Permanent Exhibition

Discovering and explaining biodiversity - this is the main emphasis of Museum Koenig. The permanent exhibition offers the visitors a genuine nature experience based on naturalistic ecosystem displays.

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Visitor information

Opening hours
Tue to Sun: 10:00 to 18:00, last entrance: 17:00h
Web: Until 21:00h (on public holidays until 18:00h), last entrance: 20:00h
Mondays: only on public holidays

Closed
Mondays (except on public holidays)
Christmas eve, Christmas day und New year's eve

Entrance fee (1 day ticket)
5,00 € (regular)
2,50 € (discounted)

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Research

Research News

Taxonomic vandalism
[23.07.2020] In fact, Spracklandus is the center of a heated debate within the world of taxonomy—one that could help determine the future of an entire scientific field. And Raym
[more]
Insect wings evolved from legs, mayfly genome suggests
[23.07.2020] Along rivers and streams around the world, mayflies are a rite of spring. The small insects lead double lives, with the young thriving in water and the adults emerging around June for just a few hours to mate and quickly die. Because of their...
[more]
New study on Angelshark (Squatina squatina) nursery areas in the Canary Islands
[20.07.2020] One confirmed and 13 potential Angelshark nursery areas have been identified around the Canary Island archipelago, with data used to develop a Guidance Document to better protect important habitats of this Critically Endangered species. The...
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Projects

Staff

The Museum Koenig maintains around 80 permanent positions (ca. 40 of which are held by researchers), as well as over 150 additional staff members.

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