Museum für Naturkunde
Museum für Naturkunde stands in Berlin as a natural history museum with more than thirty million zoological, palaeontological and mineralogical specimens. Its galleries bring deep-sea expeditions, Antarctic research and biodiversity together with fossils, minerals and meteorites.
The Dinosaur Hall centres on Giraffatitan brancai, a mounted skeleton rising 13.27 metres above the floor. Archaeopteryx lithographica, discovered in 1871, preserves one of the most complete examples of this transitional fossil between reptiles and birds. The collections also include more than one million specimens preserved in ethanol, while the mineral holdings represent 75 percent of the world’s minerals.
The building dates from 1875 to 1880 and reopened in 1945 after wartime damage. Look for the Giraffatitan’s enormous frame, recovered from Tanzania between 1909 and 1913 by Werner Janensch.
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