The collections of the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research comprise around 40 million objects from 200 years of research history—Senckenberg displays part of these collections in the Frankfurt Natural History Museum.
Permanent exhibition
The Fascination of Diversity
Spanning 15 meters in length and 4 meters in height, the permanent exhibition “Fascination Diversity” presents around 1,000 biological and geological objects in a huge wall display case and invites visitors to learn more about the “Earth system” and what is known as geobiodiversity research.
A lot has happened since the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research was founded in 1817: Today, Senckenberg scientists are researching the entire diversity of inanimate and animate nature worldwide in order to understand the Earth as a whole. To this end, they have been collecting and preserving biological and geological objects for over 200 years. There are already around 40 million of them – and more are added every year!
“Fascination Diversity” – this is the title of a permanent exhibition by the Senckenberg Nature Research Society, which brings together around 1,000 objects in a huge wall display case. The “wall” presents a tiny excerpt from the scientific collections – just 0.0025 percent, but it’s quite something: Spanning 15 meters in length and 4 meters in height, visitors will find a colorful cross-section of the collections from Senckenberg’s eleven locations: from tiny beetles to fascinating fossils, colorful birds, and glittering minerals to the stately okapi bull. Here, animals, fossils, and plants that would never have encountered each other in time or space come together side by side. Simply viewing this diversity is an experience in itself!
You can interactively call up more detailed information about the objects and learn that the geosciences and biosciences are so closely intertwined at Senckenberg that they can be combined into “geobiodiversity research.” At a “game table,” visitors can answer questions about the wall objects together or against each other. The fascination of diversity can be experienced here by all age groups!
“Fascination Diversity” is located in the Senckenberg Natural History Museum Frankfurt, 2nd floor, Wolfgang Steubing Hall. The exhibition is part of the permanent exhibition.
With the kind support of MESO.