The Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig

is a research museum of the Leibniz Association

Link to Leibniz Association

Opening hours

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)

News

21.06.2020
BIG, BIGGER, DINOSAURS.
31.12.2019
No access to the exhibition "WATER - Life in the River" until December 2019
30.08.2019
The ZFMK is closed on 30th of August
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big, BIGGER,
DINOSAURS
The current state of research on the largest land animals that have ever lived on earth and the detective methods of scientists.
To Special Exhibition
NEW: Permanent exhibition
Freshwater
Visit our various freshwater habitats and dicover the mostly unknown diversity of species.
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Treasury of Life
Rainforest
Join a chimpanzee tracking tour, encounter dangerous driver ants and discover a leopard in the rainforest understorey - explore one of the most species-rich ecosystems of our planet.
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Permanent exhibition
Arctic / Antarctic
Whales, penguins, ice bears and other fascinating animals in, under and on the ice guide you into the world of perpetual ice.
More on Arctic / Antarctic
Permanent exhibition
Desert
Our exhibition "Desert - world of extremes" displays animals using tricks and adaptations to survive.
More on the Desert exhibition
Permanent exhibition
Savannah
The African savannah in the atrium forms the heart of the exhibition, mediating the complex relationships between different species in this habitat.
More on the Savannah exhibition
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Our blue planet

Explore species diversity yourself: Our permanent exhibition offers a genuine nature experience based on naturalistic ecosystem displays.
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Easter Holidays

„Walking on eight legs“, a 4-day holiday programme about spiders and scorpions. Suitable for children from 8 to 12 years old. Will be carried out in German.
Further Information (in German)

Children birthday party

You want to give something special to your childs birthday? Invite the birthday child and its party guests to an unforgettable experience at Museum Koenig!
More information

Special Exhibitions

Object Worlds as a Cosmos

Special exhibition
14.11.2019 to 22.03.2020
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 selected objects, the exhibition addresses this cosmos of object worlds in a form of science and research that is today more than ever mutually fruitful.
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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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[All special exhibitions]

Adopt an animal

Adopting an animal exhibit or one of our living "inhabitants" is a very special gift for friends, relatives, for your company or for yourself.

Currently our adoptions support the upcoming rainforest exhibition: Choose your "godchild" and help funding our new exhibition highlight at Museum Koenig.

Adopt an animal
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