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

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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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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BIG, BIGGER, DINOSAURS.

[21.06.2020] The Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig Leibniz Institute for Animal Biodiversity (ZFMK, Museum Koenig) presents a new exhibition of unique dinosaur skeletons from September 28, 2019 to June 21, 2020. For the first time ever, dinosaur...

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Events

Welcome on the Titanic - navigating around three icebergs and mitigating impacts

11/23/2020 - 5:00pm

Lecture | Students

Dr. Christof Schenck | Director of theFrankfurt Zoological Societytitel: Welcome on the Titanic - navigating around three icebergs and mitigating...

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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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Landscape genetics: Peopling of the Caucasus

02/01/2021 - 5:15pm

Lecture | Students

Previous studies have shown that post-glacial dispersal from human refugia and colonization has shaped up the current genetic structure of manyhuman...

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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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