Humboldt Museum

The Museum für Naturkunde (in English, the Museum of Natural History), widely known as the Humboldt Museum of Berlin, is the first national museum in the world, with a massive collection of more than 25 million zoological, paleontological, and minerological specimens, including more than ten thousand type specimens. It is most famous for two spectacular exhibits: the largest mounted dinosaur in the world, and the most exquisitely preserved specimen of the earliest known bird, Archaeopteryx.

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English - Museum - Type specimen - Dinosaur - Bird - Archaeopteryx

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Divided into Institutes of Paleontology, Mineralogy, and Zoology, it is the largest museum of natural history in Germany, and part of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, which was established in 1810; though the museum's mineral collections date back to the Prussian Academy in 1700. Significant zoological specimens were recovered by Valdiva deep-sea diving expeditions, and expeditions to the rich fossil beds in Tendaguru, Africa unearthed paleontological treasures. The collections are so extensive that less than 1 in 300 specimens is actually exhibited, and they attract researchers from around the world.

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Paleontology - Mineralogy - Zoology - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Mineral - Prussian Academy - Valdiva - Deep-sea diving - Fossil - Tendaguru - Africa

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Additional exhibits include a mineral collection representing 75% of the minerals in the world, a large meteor collection, the largest piece of amber in the world; exhibits of the now-extinct quagga and tasmanian tiger, and "Bobby" the gorilla, a Berlin celebrity from the 1920s and 1930s.

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Mineral - Meteor - Amber - Quagga - Tasmanian tiger - Gorilla - Berlin - 1920s - 1930s

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