Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig

The Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK) is one of the major natural history research museums in the Federal Republic of Germany. The museum has earned its reputation as a leading institution in this field through the docomentation, investigation, and explanation of species richness (biodiversity). The significant scientific collections, which concentrate on vertebrates and insects in terrestrial habitats, constitute the museum’s "heart". These collections represent the foundation of the manifold research themes dealt with here. The permanent exhibition also shows parts of these rich holdings.

Museum Koenig, as Leibniz-Institute for Terrestrial Biodiversity, has enlarged its field of research in systematic zoology by adding important problems of the worldwide biodiversity crisis. The staff members are thus beginning to make important contributions to the protection of the world’s biological resources, because the results of their research are made available to and discussed by the scientific community worldwide. These scientific findings contribute to authoritative economic and political decisions which secure the maintenance of mankind’s basic needs. Museum Koenig pursues modern, future-oriented research with this task spectrum. At the same time, it takes an important place in the international efforts toward conserving the diversity of species within the framework of manifold cooperations.

The latest research results will be made available to the general public through the realization of the new permanent exhibition project "Our Blue Planet - Life in the Network". In addition, museum educators mediate Nature’s complex relationships in specially developed programs. In this way, adults as well as children can playfully learn to experience their natural environment.

Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig
Adenauerallee 160
53113 Bonn
Tel: +49 (0)228 / 9122 - 200
Fax: +49 (0)228 / 9122 - 202
E-Mail: secretary.zfmk@uni-bonn.de

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Further Information: www.museum-koenig.de