permanent exhibitions
WHERE WE COME FROM
This journey through time takes you back to the prehistory of humankind and even further back to the developmental history of life and the origin of the earth.
Follow the timeline: from the Big Bang to the earliest fossils to fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals and humans. Experience the different periods of time with their special events. Observe the biological and cultural evolution of man, the emergence of early cultures and important innovations of mankind. Prehistoric times seem long gone, but are they really?
WHO WE ARE
After your journey through millions of years in the permanent exhibition "Where We Come From", you are now starting another journey through time that at best lasts 100 years: the life of a modern human being from conception to death.
How does our body develop, how does it work and how do we change in the course of life? What remains? What does our skeleton reveal about our evolutionary relationship to vertebrates? As different as we humans are from each other, as much we have in common: what makes us what we are? Who are we?
Note:
The permanent exhibition "Who We Are"can be visited on the 1st floor as part of the redesign. There, you can also visit the "Experience Room: The Senses".
Further information on the redesign of the two main exhibitions can be found here.
The exhibition contains human remains.
HOW WE LEARN
We learn all our lives: deliberately or unintentionally, motivated by interest or from mistakes and through practice. But how exactly does this learning work? Which tools and strategies help us? What happens in our brain?
We explain research results from neurology, psychology and pedagogy with brain specimens of humans and animals, models, films, tests and games. You will experience that you know more than you think and that you learn without meaning to.
The permanent exhibition "How We Learn" is open to individual visitors on Saturdays and Sundays, as well as on public holidays, from 1 pm to 6 pm. Groups can visit the exhibition from Monday to Sunday from 9 am as part of a booked tour.
DISCOVERY TRAIL
Here you may feel, hear, look, smell, solve puzzles and experiment.
Playfully learn about the evolution of life, the Stone Age, the anatomy and function of the human body and the body structure of animals. You are allowed to open all drawers and touch everything. The drawers with a dinosaur symbol are especially suitable for the youngest guests.