The Museum für Naturkunde Berlin is the largest natural history museum in Germany with 30 million specimens. It covers all of nature to historical dinosaurs and is really family friendly.
Kaiser Wilhelm II opened the building on Invalidenstrasse as early as 1889. With its imposing columns and large windows, the magnificent Wilhelmine building resembles a palace. Its collections comprise more than 30 million objects.
Originally part of Humboldt University of Berlin , it has been a public foundation since January 1, 2009 The Museum can be reached, among other ways, via the U-Bahn station of the same name . It sees itself as an integrated research museum and, through its activities regarding citizen science and the digital development of its collection It’s three key tasks are collecting, researching, and communicating, functions as an interface between science and society.
The wet collection consists of over 270,000 vials with one millions animal species. The samples cover a huge range of anatomical specimens giving a huge record of evolution. The preserving fluid is ethanol and they have over 80 tons in all the vials.
