The Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig

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Our permanent exhibit "Our blue planet - the living network" provides insights into the most important ecosystems on earth and into the "laws of nature":

Why are bushfires important in the savannah? How do animals adapt to extreme conditions in the Arctic and Antarctic? What role do driver ants play in the rainforest? How is the Sahara desert linked to Central Europe and why does the Amazon rainforest depend on it? How do freshwater habitats function?

The exhibitions show that precise knowledge about species, that is, elements of life communities, allow well-founded prognoses about the cooperation in the ecosystems. The vital research of the Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig contributes to the maintenance of the functionality of our environment.
 

Contents

OVERVIEW: Our Blue Planet - The Living Network

Understanding our "life in the global network" makes us comprehend the need for conservation of and research on the biodiversity on our planet and lets us realise how mankind depends on it.

RENOVATION: Freshwater - Life in Flow

NOTE: This exhibtion is under construction, since we are implementing a barrier-free access by elevator. -- Water matters like no other element to all organismic life, and freshwater habitats are hence in the focus of this new exhibition.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION: Rainforest - Canopy

The second part of the "Rainforest" is currently under construction. After the first part of the new permanent exhibition, the “Understorey”, was opened in 2016 on the ground floor of the museum, an equally lifelike staging of an African lowland rainforest canopy will be built on the first floor ...

Rainforest - The Understorey

The rainforest is home to an extremely diverse animal population with a variety of mammals, exotic birds, and insects.

Savanna - Changeful Paradise

The African savannah in the atrium forms the heart of the exhibition, which aims to mediate the complex relationships between different species in this habitat.

Arctic / Antarctic - Survival in Ice

Arctic and Antarctic have the most arid and cold places on Earth. Both have snow and ice, northern and southern lights, blizzards and snow storms. Antarctica is a continental land mass but the Arctic is a sea with edges of other countries in the Arctic circle. The exhibition looks at the aspects of indegenous people, the food chain, flora and fauna, light phenomena and wind and weather. The interplay of ocean currents is very important to climate.

Desert - World of Extremes

The deserts are a habitat with a very few number of species. Only animals that have adapted to the extreme climate are able to live in those regions.

Central Europe - Discover Homeland

The section Central Europe focuses on native species. Agriculture technology and trade have been particularly powerful human influences on forests.

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)