Unique Events at Senckenberg

When the Senckenberg Natural History Museum closes its doors in the evening, the halls transform into stages for vibrant receptions, festive gala dinners and high-ranking award ceremonies. Each celebration in the Hall of the Dinosaurs and each event in the Hall of the Whales and Elephants is unique. A night at the museum becomes a journey into a mysterious past among sea giants and prehistoric predators.

Event days:

• Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri (setup from 5:00 pm, dismantling after the event)

Atrium 1 (Dinosaurs)

• Ca. 570 sqm including exhibit, room height 8 m
• Capacity: about 120 persons with banquet tables, 180 persons with long tables
• Standing reception: up to 250 persons, depending on the seating and program
• The adjacent room with the fossil marine reptiles can be used as a lounge area
• Room rental starts at 7.500 Euro + VAT

Atrium 2 (Whales and Elephants)

• Ca. 580 sqm including exhibit
• Capacity: about 180 persons with banquet tables, 230 persons with long tables
• Standing reception: up to 250 persons, depending on the seating and program
• Can only be booked in combination with Atrium 1
• Room rental starts at 12.000 Euro + VAT

Around the event:

• Smoking and open fires are not permitted
• Site visit by appointment (please register in advance)

Built in 1906 in the neo-baroque style and recently renovated, the ballroom in the Jügelhaus of the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung can be offered as a historic location for events.

Thanks to the large arched windows, the ballroom is flooded with light; white stucco and light red marble decorate the ceiling and walls. The center of the hall is adorned with an imposing chandelier, giving this room a festive atmosphere. The organ, designed in 1947 by Professor Helmut Walcha with a modern, neo-Baroque orientation, represents a new beginning in Bach reception and can be used during the event.

The location is ideally suited for a wide variety of event formats: from vibrant receptions and festive dinner evenings to unique award ceremonies and concerts. Private celebrations such as birthdays or weddings as well as conferences and meetings are also possible.

Event days
    • Mon-Sun (setup from 3:00 pm, dismantling after the event)

Ballroom of the Jügelhaus

– Ca. 208 sqm
– Capacity: about 150 persons with banquet tables, 160 persons with long tables
– Standing reception: up to 250 persons, depending on the seating and program
– Theater seating up to 278 persons
– Stage and speaker‘s desk is available
– Use of the projector and screen as well as the soundsystem an microphone is possible on request
– Use of the Organ is possible on request (only with educated personnel)
– The adjacent foyer can be used for the events as well
– Room rental starts at 5.000€ + VAT

Around the event:

    • Smoking and open fires are not permitted
    • Site visit by appointment (please register in advance)

Are you looking for something extra special for your exclusive event at our Natural History Museum?

Guided tours

Highlight Tour: Experience the highlights of the Senckenberg Natural History Museum collection. Impressive, bizarre and sometimes also peculiar exhibits from zoology and botany, geology, paleontology and mineralogy offer surprising and interesting facts to help understand the nature that surrounds us.

Flashlight Tour: Meet several-million-year-old dinosaurs, lions, gorillas and giraffes, countless beetles, and experience colorful bird life and exotic sea creatures in the dark! Exciting and unusual insights, illuminated only by torchlight, will make this evening an unforgettable experience.

Individual themed tours are available on request.

100 Euro for 1 hour guided tour until 10pm

125 Euro for 1 hour guided tour after 10pm

Three guided tours are possible at the same time. Size of groups: 18 participants per group.

Your contact person:

Frau Angelika Stahl
Museum Education
Senckenberg Naturmuseum
Phone: +49 69-7542-1341, (in the mornings) or E-Mail: eventfuehrung@senckenberg.de