Natur-Museum Goldberg

About the museum

The Natur-Museum is housed in Goldberg's former water mill, a technical monument. The half-timbered building was built around 1730 right on the small Mildenitz river. In 1960 the museum, founded as early as 1927, was given the building, which was converted until 1969; this created exhibition and work rooms, an archive, storerooms, outbuildings and a workshop. The then director Hans Hentschel and his colleagues created the natural history museum together with the farmhouse garden through great personal commitment.

The exhibition deals with the flora, fauna, archaeology and geology of the town and its surroundings as well as town and craft history, under the guiding idea “Landschaft erzählt Geschichte” (landscape tells history). Numerous taxidermy specimens – including a wolf – present the region's wildlife: species that have adapted to the landscape shaped by humans, and those that can hardly find niches in which to survive. The black kitchen (Schwarzküche) of the old water mill is also well worth seeing.

Behind the house, by the water, lies a farmhouse garden with culinary and medicinal herbs and a shady orchard meadow. Events are held regularly in the special exhibition room. The tourist information office is also housed in the building.

Highlights

• Specimens of local wildlife, including a wolf
• Black kitchen (Schwarzküche) of the old water mill
• Many interactive stations to touch, join in and solve puzzles
• Farmhouse garden with culinary and medicinal herbs
• Orchard meadow right on the Mildenitz
• Themes: flora, fauna, archaeology, geology and craft history

Permanent exhibition

• Landschaft erzählt Geschichte – Geschichten einer Landschaft – Natural history exhibition on animals and plants, geology, archaeology, and town and craft history, with specimens of the region's wildlife (including a wolf), interactive stations and the mill's black kitchen.

Founded

1927

Admission & discounts

Accessibility

• Wheelchair accessible
• Elevator
• Accessible restroom
• Accessible parking
• Service dogs welcome
• Tactile models & exhibits: no information
• Sign language tours: no information
• Easy-to-read materials: no information
• Audio description: no information

The museum is wheelchair-accessible; there is a lift, a stairlift and an accessible toilet. Parking directly in front of the building.

Kids & families

Great for kids & families

• Hands-on stations

Many interactive stations invite children to touch, join in, solve puzzles and explore.

Getting there & parking

The museum is in the former water mill on the small Mildenitz river, Müllerweg 2.

Amenities & dining

Coffee machine in the building, snack options on the grounds; registered groups can have cake baked in the museum's own clay oven. The tourist information office is in the building; the farmhouse garden and orchard meadow are behind the museum.

Events & venue rental

The museum hasn’t published any information on this.

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