Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart

In Stuttgart, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart brings natural history together across Museum am Löwentor and Schloss Rosenstein. Schloss Rosenstein stands within Stuttgart’s Rosenstein Park. Together, the buildings present preserved animals and plants alongside geology, palaeontology and mineralogy.

Its origins reach back to a natural history collection founded by the Dukes of Württemberg in the late eighteenth century. King Wilhelm I made it a public state collection in the early nineteenth century. Oscar Fraas and Eberhard Fraas later expanded its geology, palaeontology and mineralogy holdings. Since 1954, Schloss Rosenstein has displayed the biological collection.

At Museum am Löwentor, an African elephant dermoplastic introduces evolution beside a sequence from plants through mammals. Primates and human evolution receive their own room. Dioramas show local habitats, while another room examines extinction and conservation. Further galleries range from marine mammals and a thirteen-metre sei whale to rainforests, tundra and polar regions. Educational programmes include tours, projects, holiday activities, excursions and events for different age groups.