Information and Services
Instructions for your visit
Hygiene instructions
- Please come to the Senckenberg Natural History Museum only if you feel healthy.
- Medical masks are recommended
- Please observe the cough and sneeze label, wash or disinfect your hands regularly.
If you have any questions that go beyond these, please do not hesitate to contact us. You can contact us by e-mail at: info@senckenberg.de
Opening Hours
Monday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Tuesday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Wednesday 9 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Thursday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Friday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Please note:
Due to construction the fish exhibit is currently closed.
Shrove Tuesday 9 a.m. – 1 p.m closed.
Good Friday, 24th December, 31st December, 1st January closed.
Handicapped accessibility
For wheelchair users: About 90 percent of the exhibition is accessible. Only a few exhibition areas are not accessible for wheelchairs: “Edmontosaurus and Pterosaurs”, “Fossils of Messel”, “Human evolution” and the gallery of the exhibition “Fossil marine reptiles and fish”.
For blind or partially sighted visitors: In two small exhibition areas there are exhibits that can be touched and which are equipped with Braille. “Human evolution” provides 11 heads of our prehistoric ancestors and in “Human embryology” you can touch several stages of becoming a human being.
Dogs are not allowed in the museum, except for guide dogs for the blind.
A wheelchair is available – if you need to use it, please contact our staff.
You find a disabled parking space at the museum (close to the bistro entrance).