Museum der Natur

Museum der Natur occupies a late nineteenth-century building inspired by the palaces of Renaissance Italy. Broad steps lead visitors past stone lions.

Double colonnades of classical columns frame an entrance with statues representing art and science. A bright vestibule contains a colourful Italian marble mosaic.

The museum’s collections examine Earth’s history through fossils, interactive exhibits, and photography exhibitions about nature. The Bromacker Lab focuses on early land vertebrates.

Fossils and ancient footprints from Bromacker illuminate how life moved onto land nearly 300 million years ago. Orobates pabsti represents that ancient world.

Scientists built the Orobot robot to investigate how Orobates pabsti walked across the ground. Ancient footprints preserve another trace of movement.

Interactive stations give adults and children hands-on ways to investigate prehistoric science together. Chirotherium barthii appears among the named fossils.

Photography exhibitions show nature’s beauty and fragility. Marble, columns, lions, fossils, and footprints connect the building with the history of life on Earth.