The Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig

is a research museum of the Leibniz Association

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Permanent Exhibitions

Our blue planet - the living network

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.

As the growth of human population is enmormous,  Humans are the fundamental cause of one of the three biggest mass extinctions the world has ever seen. Thus, involved in a race against time, museum scientists study biodiverstiy in nearly every region of the world, from the African and South American tropics to Antarctica but also in Europe and Germany.

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NEW: Freshwater - Life in Flow

Water matters like no other element to all organismic life, and freshwater habitats are hence in the focus of this new exhibition.

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)