Robot humans, green skyscrapers, collaborative economies: There are endless possibilities for thinking about the future. The exhibition in the Futurium presents and discusses different concepts for the future: How do we want to work and live in the future? What technologies do we use and how do we use them? How do we meet our […]
Discover new exhibits, exciting talks, workshops and events for the family. All around raw materials. At Futurium. Raw materials determine our lives. Our whole existence rests upon them: we build our houses with them; we power our cars and machines with their energy; we bake our bread with them and use them in our smartphones […]
What do you associate with the word “ocean”? The boundlessness of the water? Bizarre deep-sea creatures? The ideal wave for surfing? Oceans have shaped our planet for billions of years and are the basis of all life. They determine our climate, provide us with oxygen and food. And they connect us – our histories, cultures […]
„Hi there, how can I simplify your life today?“ We turn to AI with prompts, tasks and requests for analyses, hoping for recommendations, ideas and answers in return. But if we hand over more and more competences to our new assistants, will this really simplify our everyday lives in the long term? New kinds of roommates […]
The Berlin Medical History Museum of the Charité has been showing an extensive permanent exhibition since 2007. The presentation takes its visitors - in the spirit of Rudolf Virchow - on a "journey under the skin". The tour begins in the early 18th century with a visit to the Berlin Anatomical Theatre. Via the Anatomical […]
Pollinator Pathmaker is a living artwork for pollinating insects by the artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg located on the forecourt of the museum. She invites us to look at the world from the viewpoint of pollinators and offers a unique opportunity to contribute to their conservation.
Archive of Life in Amber Tones The exhibition tour of the wet collection offers insights into scientific work behind glass. Here, we show how we preserve, document, and maintain organisms for research and for future generations.
Welcome to the World of Dinosaurs At the heart of the museum, the World of Dinosaurs offers insights into research and history: the Giraffatitan, the early bird Archaeopteryx, and fossils from Tendaguru tell stories of science, colonial contexts, and transformation.
Preserving, Connecting, and Experiencing Knowledge in New Ways How is digitalization transforming research and collections? digitize! shows how analog objects become digital data – and how this enables new ways of accessing knowledge. At the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, collection development and digitalization connect what was long kept separate: collections, research, and the public. In […]
Our bird collection has to be partially relocated due to renovation. We have taken this as an opportunity for a one-off special exhibition focusing on the historical bird specimens and input from our visitors. The collection room with the historical bird specimens is currently being renovated as part of the Future Plan. For the approximately 11,500 historical mounted […]
Over the next few years, we will be working on our Future Plan and turning our building upside down: the museum will be renovated, the scientific collection objects will be catalogued and digitized and new exhibitions will be created with the participation of the public. Large transport boxes are stacked in four places in the museum space […]
How Minerals Shape Our Lives You think you have nothing to do with minerals? Then think again: your breakfast plate is made of quartz, kaolinite, and feldspar; your nail polish sparkles thanks to mica minerals such as muscovite or lepidolite; and your smartphone contains up to 70 different chemical elements – including aluminum, copper, nickel, […]
How Does Our Home Planet Work? Our Earth is not a static celestial body, but a system full of interactions. Driven by heat flows within the Earth, continents shift, mountains rise, volcanoes form, and oceans open and close again. These processes shape not only landscapes, but also the development of life – and vice versa: […]
Step into the dimensions of space and time The historic staircase, with its cast-iron flights and railings, becomes a gateway to the universe: at the center of the exhibition Cosmos and Solar System, a large, movable projection sky floats above, bringing the history of the cosmos – from the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago […]
The Diversity of Life on Earth How did the incredible diversity of life on our planet arise? Why do animals and plants look the way they do – and how do they change over time? In the exhibition Evolution in Action, you will find answers to these questions.
Insights into Our Preparation Workshops Historical and contemporary specimens document how scientific precision and craftsmanship come together – and how preparation makes knowledge visible and permanently accessible.
A Journey Through Time into the World of Dinosaurs – and of T. rex Tristan Otto The special exhibition presents original fossils, current research, and new perspectives on dinosaurs. The “giant lizards” in the gallery demonstrate how our understanding continues to change through scientific discoveries.
There is nothing we associate more with being sick than lying in bed. This special exhibition Horizontal: Politics and Poetics from the Sickbed explores how perception and our connection to the world change when the bed becomes the center of our lives. Historical objects and archival materials, artworks, activist positions, and stories of lived experience enter […]
Behind the scenes of research For the first time, the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin is opening a listed historic research hall to visitors. As part of the Museum Evolution project, we have carefully restored the room and made it accessible for guided tours. The tours also take visitors to the research collection of Deer & Bovids. […]
A research collection is being made public As part of the Museum Evolution project, the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin is permanently opening up further sections of its research collection to visitors. The Public Collection of Deer & Bovids is one of these new halls and can be viewed as part of a guided tour, together […]
The members of the responsible Junge Akademie's Research Group understand the posthuman, the "more-than-human" and the "non-human" not as an abstract theoretical field, but as a question that is equally relevant across a wide range of disciplines: from human genetics and the neurosciences, art history and philosophy, robotics and systems biology, to theology, history and […]
The Berlin Medical History Museum of the Charité has been showing an extensive permanent exhibition since 2007. The presentation takes its visitors - in the spirit of Rudolf Virchow - on a "journey under the skin". The tour begins in the early 18th century with a visit to the Berlin Anatomical Theatre. Via the Anatomical […]
Robot humans, green skyscrapers, collaborative economies: There are endless possibilities for thinking about the future. The exhibition in the Futurium presents and discusses different concepts for the future: How do we want to work and live in the future? What technologies do we use and how do we use them? How do we meet our […]
Pollinator Pathmaker is a living artwork for pollinating insects by the artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg located on the forecourt of the museum. She invites us to look at the world from the viewpoint of pollinators and offers a unique opportunity to contribute to their conservation.
Archive of Life in Amber Tones The exhibition tour of the wet collection offers insights into scientific work behind glass. Here, we show how we preserve, document, and maintain organisms for research and for future generations.
Welcome to the World of Dinosaurs At the heart of the museum, the World of Dinosaurs offers insights into research and history: the Giraffatitan, the early bird Archaeopteryx, and fossils from Tendaguru tell stories of science, colonial contexts, and transformation.
Preserving, Connecting, and Experiencing Knowledge in New Ways How is digitalization transforming research and collections? digitize! shows how analog objects become digital data – and how this enables new ways of accessing knowledge. At the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, collection development and digitalization connect what was long kept separate: collections, research, and the public. In […]
Discover new exhibits, exciting talks, workshops and events for the family. All around raw materials. At Futurium. Raw materials determine our lives. Our whole existence rests upon them: we build our houses with them; we power our cars and machines with their energy; we bake our bread with them and use them in our smartphones […]
Our bird collection has to be partially relocated due to renovation. We have taken this as an opportunity for a one-off special exhibition focusing on the historical bird specimens and input from our visitors. The collection room with the historical bird specimens is currently being renovated as part of the Future Plan. For the approximately 11,500 historical mounted […]
Over the next few years, we will be working on our Future Plan and turning our building upside down: the museum will be renovated, the scientific collection objects will be catalogued and digitized and new exhibitions will be created with the participation of the public. Large transport boxes are stacked in four places in the museum space […]
How Minerals Shape Our Lives You think you have nothing to do with minerals? Then think again: your breakfast plate is made of quartz, kaolinite, and feldspar; your nail polish sparkles thanks to mica minerals such as muscovite or lepidolite; and your smartphone contains up to 70 different chemical elements – including aluminum, copper, nickel, […]
How Does Our Home Planet Work? Our Earth is not a static celestial body, but a system full of interactions. Driven by heat flows within the Earth, continents shift, mountains rise, volcanoes form, and oceans open and close again. These processes shape not only landscapes, but also the development of life – and vice versa: […]
Step into the dimensions of space and time The historic staircase, with its cast-iron flights and railings, becomes a gateway to the universe: at the center of the exhibition Cosmos and Solar System, a large, movable projection sky floats above, bringing the history of the cosmos – from the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago […]
The Diversity of Life on Earth How did the incredible diversity of life on our planet arise? Why do animals and plants look the way they do – and how do they change over time? In the exhibition Evolution in Action, you will find answers to these questions.
Insights into Our Preparation Workshops Historical and contemporary specimens document how scientific precision and craftsmanship come together – and how preparation makes knowledge visible and permanently accessible.
What do you associate with the word “ocean”? The boundlessness of the water? Bizarre deep-sea creatures? The ideal wave for surfing? Oceans have shaped our planet for billions of years and are the basis of all life. They determine our climate, provide us with oxygen and food. And they connect us – our histories, cultures […]
A Journey Through Time into the World of Dinosaurs – and of T. rex Tristan Otto The special exhibition presents original fossils, current research, and new perspectives on dinosaurs. The “giant lizards” in the gallery demonstrate how our understanding continues to change through scientific discoveries.
There is nothing we associate more with being sick than lying in bed. This special exhibition Horizontal: Politics and Poetics from the Sickbed explores how perception and our connection to the world change when the bed becomes the center of our lives. Historical objects and archival materials, artworks, activist positions, and stories of lived experience enter […]
Behind the scenes of research For the first time, the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin is opening a listed historic research hall to visitors. As part of the Museum Evolution project, we have carefully restored the room and made it accessible for guided tours. The tours also take visitors to the research collection of Deer & Bovids. […]
A research collection is being made public As part of the Museum Evolution project, the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin is permanently opening up further sections of its research collection to visitors. The Public Collection of Deer & Bovids is one of these new halls and can be viewed as part of a guided tour, together […]
„Hi there, how can I simplify your life today?“ We turn to AI with prompts, tasks and requests for analyses, hoping for recommendations, ideas and answers in return. But if we hand over more and more competences to our new assistants, will this really simplify our everyday lives in the long term? New kinds of roommates […]
The members of the responsible Junge Akademie's Research Group understand the posthuman, the "more-than-human" and the "non-human" not as an abstract theoretical field, but as a question that is equally relevant across a wide range of disciplines: from human genetics and the neurosciences, art history and philosophy, robotics and systems biology, to theology, history and […]