for people with impaired mobility
The entrance for wheelchair users is located on the right side of the main-entrance. Please ring the door bell and our security staff will open the door within a few moments. With electric wheelchairs the museum is accessible by an elevator at the rear of the building. Our staff will be happy to assist you. The cloakroom, toilets and exhibition areas are all directly accessable from this entrance by stair lift.
Short Facts
Built
1889
Opened
Redesigned rooms around the Dinosaur Room: 2007, East Wing with the Wet Collections: 2010
Exhibition space
6700 m²
What to see
testaments to evolution: fossils, skeletons, prepared animal specimens, insects, minerals
Definitely don’t miss
Brachiosaurus, ancient bird Archaeopteryx, Tristan the Tyrannosaurus Rex