ZFMK

The Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig

is a research museum of the Leibniz Association

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.

Research Program

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News

Decline of a keystone species: first results of a cooperation between Cameroonian and German scientists to investigate the population status and the ecology of the Kob-Antelope in Cameroon

[12.11.2020] A cooperation between Cameroonian and German researchers was started recently that aims at improving our knowledge concerning the status and the ecology of the Buffon’s kob antelope (Kobus kob kob, Erxleben 1777). A first outcome of the...

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More plant diversity, less pesticides Species-rich plant communities help to naturally reduce herbivore impacts

[06.11.2020] More plant diversity, less pesticidesSpecies-rich plant communities help to naturally reduce herbivore impacts.Leipzig/Jena/Minnesota/Bonn. Increasing plant diversity enhances the natural control of insect herbivory in grasslands. Species-rich...

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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

Discovering and Describing Diversity — From Deep-Sea to the Shore Ekin Tilic Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Univ. Bonn Exploration of our oceans continues to reveal unknown animal species. On average 2000 new marine species are described each year.

12/07/2020 - 5:00pm

Lecture | Students

Discovering and Describing Diversity — From Deep-Sea to the ShoreEkin TilicInstitute of Evolutionary Biology, Univ. BonnExploration of our oceans...

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Mechanistic insights into biology through scaling studies

12/14/2020 - 5:00pm

Lecture | Students

Some of the most fruitful endeavours to port physical approaches to biology have involved questions of scale. Selective pressures may drive species...

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Ecology, Evolution, and the Diversity of Wolf Spiders (Araneae, Lycosidae)

01/11/2021 - 5:00pm

Lecture | Students

While Lycosidae (commonly named wolf spiders) represents dominant predatory macro-arthropods and one of the most diverse spider families in the world...

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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

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Museum

Special exhibitions

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

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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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