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

No access to the exhibition "WATER - Life in the River" until December 2019

[31.12.2019] Aktuell modernisiert das ZFMK den Zugang zu diesem Ausstellungsbereich: Zukünfig wird die Ausstellung mit einem Fahrstuhl barrierefrei zu erreichen sein. Wir planen, dass diese Baumaßnahme bis Dezember 2019 abgeschlossen sein wird.Bis dahin muss...

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Biodiversity_next Workshop: Pan-European Biodiversity Monitoring

[11.10.2019] Under the leadership of Dr. Livia Schäffler from @MuseumKoenig the “Biodiversity_next workshop: pan-European Biodiversity Monitoring“ of the European Biodiversity Monitoring Group will be hosted in Leiden – Netherlands - from October 20th to...

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The ZFMK is closed on 30th of August

[30.08.2019] The ZFMK is closed on 30th of August

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Events

Central Nervous System Ventralization

10/14/2019 - 5:00pm

Lecture | Students

Ventralization, a major patterning process in developing vertebrate central nervous systems, depends on Sonic hedgehog (Shh) as a main signaling...

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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

Staff
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Museum

Special exhibitions

BIG, BIGGER, DINOSAURS -- A Glimpse Inside the Lab of Gigantism Researchers

Special exhibition

28.09.2019 to 21.06.2020

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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After Nature - To the endangered and vanished ones

Art exhibition

15.08.2019 to 20.10.2019

Janet Laurence is a contemporary installation artist using a variety of media in her work to address the themes of fragility and loss of our natural world and our varied relationship to it.

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Our Blue Planet

To the permanent exhibition

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

Biodiversity_next Workshop: Pan-European Biodiversity Monitoring

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Bioblitz in Georgia

[05.08.2019] Impressions from Bioblitz in Georgia can be seen here. The video is mostly taken in Georgian, but there are also English contributions, so from. Dr. Marianne Espeland. An area of great biodiversity is analyzed in detail in international...

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Gold makes invisible surfaces visible in CT

[14.05.2019] Today, the three-dimensional visualization and analysis of biological samples using computer tomography (CT) is a routine procedure. However, in the past it was very difficult to visualize the fine surface details of many organisms. Scientists...

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