Museum Natur und Mensch

Aktuelle udstillinger

Om museet

The museum’s roots go back to 1895, when the city of Freiburg founded a joint museum of natural history and ethnology. After several moves, the natural history holdings found a permanent home at the end of 1931 in a former school building on Gerberau, built in the mid-19th century for the neighboring Dominican convent. The ethnological objects were kept in storage for a long time and were shown from 1961 in the adjoining Adelhauser Neukloster.

In 1996 the natural history and ethnology museums were placed under joint management. Because of fire safety deficiencies, large parts of the exhibitions had to close in 2006; the Adelhausermuseum has remained closed ever since. From 2007, exhibitions resumed on the first floor at Gerberau, and after renovation work, minerals, gemstones, and fossils have been on view again since the end of 2009. Since April 1, 2014, the museum has been called Museum Natur und Mensch.

Today it is part of the Städtische Museen Freiburg (Freiburg municipal museums). Guided by the idea of interconnected life, the permanent exhibition links Earth’s history, rocks, and the habitats of forest, water, and meadow, with many stations to touch and try out. The ethnological collection of around 20,000 objects from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Oceania is shown mainly in special exhibitions; a new presentation focusing on colonial acquisition contexts and provenance research is in preparation.

Højdepunkter

• Meteorites and fossils, including petrified ichthyosaurs
• Minerals and gemstones from southwestern Germany, with a black-light room for fluorescent crystals
• Hands-on habitats of forest, water, and meadow, including a birdsong clock and a crawl tunnel
• Hinterwald cow “Bärbel” and live bees from May to August
• Free mushroom advice on Mondays from 16:00 to 18:00

Permanente udstillinger

• Zeitraum und Steinreich – Earth’s history with fossils and meteorites, plus minerals and gemstones from the region, including a black-light room.
• Wald, Wasser, Wiese – Interactive areas on local habitats and the relationships between animals, plants, and fungi, with numerous hands-on stations.

Grundlagt

1895

Ejer

Städtische Museen Freiburg

Entrépriser & rabatter

Free admission with the Museums-PASS-Musées, FamilienCard, and FreiburgPass, and for ICOM members, among others.

Tilgængelighed

• Delvis kørestolsvenlig
• Elevator
• Handicaptoilet
• Handicapparkering: ingen oplysninger
• Servicehunde tilladt
• Taktile tilbud: ingen oplysninger
• Rundvisninger på tegnsprog: ingen oplysninger
• Letlæste tilbud: ingen oplysninger
• Synstolkning: ingen oplysninger

Accessible; wheelchair users can enter with assistance via an elevator; wheelchair-accessible restroom available. The municipal museums offer monthly tours with sign language interpretation and for visually impaired people. The building is not air-conditioned.

Børn og familie

Velegnet til børn og familier

• Familieomvisninger & workshops
• Interaktive stationer
• Barnevognsvenlig: findes ikke
• Børnefødselsdage

Hands-on stations such as the bird-song clock, petting animals, crawl tunnel and wonder drums. Family afternoons with creative activities for ages 5 and up, intergenerational tours, children's birthday parties for ages 7 to 11, and "Samstagsmuseum für Kids". Strollers and bicycle trailers are not allowed for fire safety reasons; baby carriers without a frame are.

Transport & parkering

Service & spisesteder

Specialist library as a reference library by appointment.

Arrangementer & udlejning

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