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Institution Info

Berlin Natural History Museum

Identification
Original name(s)

  • Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung (de - German)

Institution Address

Invalidenstr. 43
10115 Berlin
DE
info@mfn-berlin.de

Main areas of taxonomic expertise

  • Entomology (Coleoptera: Staphilinidae, Hymenoptera: Aculeata, Symphyta, Diptera, Microlepidoptera, Heteroptera)

  • Invertebrate Zoology: Crustacea: Amphipoda, Kinorhyncha, Mollusca: Gastropoda

  • Vertebrate Paleontology: Tetrapoda

Organisation Info

Type of organisation

Institution Address

Invalidenstr. 43
10115 Berlin
DE
info@mfn-berlin.de

Director Representative

Prof. Dr.Johannes Vogel

Contact


johannes.vogel@mfn-berlin.de

Structure Chart

url : https://collections.naturalsciences.be/cpb/nh-collections/countries/germany/de-mfn/1-cetaf-passport-administration/@@download/structure_chart_file
file : mfn_organigramm.pdf

Governing & Executive bodies

The museum is currently divided into the following Departments:

  • Directorate General, including Administration
  • The Department for Collections
  • The Department for Research Infrastructure
  • The Department for Exhibitions and Public Education

Research is organised in temporary cross-cutting Science Programs ("Forschungsbereiche"), which currently include the following:

  • Discovery of Biodiversity
  • Genome - Organism - Environment
  • Diversity Dynamics
  • Impact, Meteorites and Geological Processes
  • Collection Development
  • Science Communication and History of Science

The number of Science Programs and topics are flexible and depend on the academic focus of the Museum at any given time. Future structure of the Museum ( future organisation chart MfN) The Museum is about to change its structure. If the Board of Trustees agrees during its meeting on 11 November 2013 on the new structure, the four Departments and the temporary Science Programs will be replaced by four Science Programs.

The Museum will then comprise:

  • Directorate General (Directorate and Administration)
  • Science Program ‘Evolution and geoprocesses’
  • Science Program ‘Collections development and biodiversity discovery’
  • Science Program ‘Digital world and information science’
  • Science Program ‘Public engagement with science’

 

 

 

Staff fields

staff_year of reference2018
staff total251.0
scientific staff (permanent)33.0
scientific staff (non permanent)16.0
scientific staff post doc (non permanent)27.0
scientific staff collections (permanent)17.0
scientific staff collections (non permanent)4.0
staff collection managers technicians (permanent)36.0
staff collection managers technicians (non permanent)1.0
staff administrative (permanent)52.0
staff administrative (non permanent)47.0
staff exhibitions (permanent)15.0
staff exhibitions (non permanent)3.0

Research

General Description

 

Link of the Research page : 

Link of the Annual report : 

Research Fields

  • Anthropology / Physical anthropology (46.20.00)

Research Initiative

Education

Activities and outreach with Universities
  • In cooperation with the Institute of Biology at Humboldt-Universität: courses for bachelor students, e.g. Zoologische Bestimmungsübungen (for B.Sc. students); several modules in M.Sc. programme “Organismic biology and Evolution”; for further information see www.biologie.hu-berlin.de/studenten/lehre/master-biologie-biophysik
  • Courses for teachers and students in cooperation with the Biology Teaching department at Humboldt Universität (www2.hu-berlin.de/biologie/biodidaktik) and the Institute of Advanced Sustainability Studies (www.iass-potsdam.de)
  • joint supervision of education research projects in cooperation with the Department of Museum Management and Communication at the HTW Berlin 
  • In cooperation with Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin geological and planetological topics are taught by geoscientific staff of the Museum für Naturkunde. This course offers are also open to graduate and postgraduate students from other national and international universities.
  • Zoological, paleontological, and geoscientific staff of the Museum are supervising BSc, MSc and PhD candidates registered with any of the four Berlin-Potsdam universities.
  • Regularly, staff of the Museum are taking their expertise to other national and international universities and present lectures or short courses.

 

Activities and outreach with other public
e.g. cooperation with schools, nursery schools, adult education centres, the learning laboratories network GenaU (www.genau-bb.de), Museumspark Rüdersdorf (www.museumspark.de), Deutsches Technikmuseum (www.sdtb.de), Jugend im Museum (http://www.jugend-im-museum.de - training courses for pre-school teachers

 

Contact

Anthropology

Manager :

Taxonomic Coverage

TaxonomyQuantityDigitization levels (MIDS)Areas and Countries
Level 0 %Level 1 %Level 2 %Level 3 %
Total0

Stratigraphy

EonEraPeriodEpochCounterMIDS 0 (%)MIDS 1 (%)MIDS 2 (%)MIDS 3 (%)
Features

Storage

Storage typeAmountMIDS 0 %MIDS 1 %MIDS 2 %MIDS 3 %
Collection Description

Collection Abstract

Collection Staff

Accession Specimens

Size and Digitisation Fields
primary_types_countspecimens_countunits_countother_size_indicatorsowc_size_evaluation
000
Digitisation Fields

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Microorganisms

Manager :

Taxonomic Coverage

TaxonomyQuantityDigitization levels (MIDS)Areas and Countries
Level 0 %Level 1 %Level 2 %Level 3 %
Total0

Stratigraphy

EonEraPeriodEpochCounterMIDS 0 (%)MIDS 1 (%)MIDS 2 (%)MIDS 3 (%)
Features

Storage

Storage typeAmountMIDS 0 %MIDS 1 %MIDS 2 %MIDS 3 %
Collection Description

Collection Abstract

Collection Staff

Accession Specimens

Size and Digitisation Fields
primary_types_countspecimens_countunits_countother_size_indicatorsowc_size_evaluation
000
Digitisation Fields

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Botany

Manager :

Taxonomic Coverage

TaxonomyQuantityDigitization levels (MIDS)Areas and Countries
Level 0 %Level 1 %Level 2 %Level 3 %
Total0

Stratigraphy

EonEraPeriodEpochCounterMIDS 0 (%)MIDS 1 (%)MIDS 2 (%)MIDS 3 (%)
Features

Storage

Storage typeAmountMIDS 0 %MIDS 1 %MIDS 2 %MIDS 3 %
Pressed and dried48000
Other24000
Pressed and dried48000
Other24000
Collection Description

Collection Abstract

Collection Staff

Accession Specimens

Size and Digitisation Fields
primary_types_countspecimens_countunits_countother_size_indicatorsowc_size_evaluation
072,0000
Digitisation Fields

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Zoology Vertebrates

Manager :

Taxonomic Coverage

TaxonomyQuantityDigitization levels (MIDS)Areas and Countries
Level 0 %Level 1 %Level 2 %Level 3 %
Total0

Stratigraphy

EonEraPeriodEpochCounterMIDS 0 (%)MIDS 1 (%)MIDS 2 (%)MIDS 3 (%)
Features

Storage

Storage typeAmountMIDS 0 %MIDS 1 %MIDS 2 %MIDS 3 %
Unspecified735000
Unspecified735000
Collection Description

Collection Abstract

Collection Staff

Accession Specimens

Size and Digitisation Fields
primary_types_countspecimens_countunits_countother_size_indicatorsowc_size_evaluation
0734,0000
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Zoology Invertebrates

Manager :

Taxonomic Coverage

TaxonomyQuantityDigitization levels (MIDS)Areas and Countries
Level 0 %Level 1 %Level 2 %Level 3 %
Arthropods - arachnids
250,00024

Marine,Arctic Ocean,

Marine,North Pacific Unknown,

Marine,South Pacific Unknown,

Marine,Southern Ocean,

Arthropods - crustaceans & myriapods
45,00028

Terrestrial,Asia Temperate,

Terrestrial,North America,

Marine,Arctic Ocean,

Marine,Indian Ocean,

Marine,North Atlantic Unknown,

Marine,South Atlantic Unknown,

Marine,North Pacific Unknown,

Marine,South Pacific Unknown,

Marine,Southern Ocean,

Porifera (sponges)
16,00028

Terrestrial,Africa,

Terrestrial,Antarctica,

Terrestrial,Asia Temperate,

Terrestrial,Asia Tropical,

Terrestrial,North America,

Terrestrial,South America,

Marine,Indian Ocean,

Marine,North Pacific Unknown,

Marine,South Pacific Unknown,

Marine,Southern Ocean,

Other
48,000

Terrestrial,Antarctica,

Terrestrial,Asia Temperate,

Terrestrial,North America,

Total359,00016.714.76

Stratigraphy

EonEraPeriodEpochCounterMIDS 0 (%)MIDS 1 (%)MIDS 2 (%)MIDS 3 (%)
Features

Storage

Storage typeAmountMIDS 0 %MIDS 1 %MIDS 2 %MIDS 3 %
Unspecified900000
Dried and pinned15000000
Dried - not assembled7000000
Microscope slides260000
Unspecified900000
Dried and pinned15000000
Dried - not assembled7000000
Microscope slides260000
Collection Description

Collection Abstract

Collection Staff

Accession Specimens

Size and Digitisation Fields
primary_types_countspecimens_countunits_countother_size_indicatorsowc_size_evaluation
0359,0000
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Geology

Manager :

Taxonomic Coverage

TaxonomyQuantityDigitization levels (MIDS)Areas and Countries
Level 0 %Level 1 %Level 2 %Level 3 %
Total0

Stratigraphy

EonEraPeriodEpochCounterMIDS 0 (%)MIDS 1 (%)MIDS 2 (%)MIDS 3 (%)
Features

Storage

Storage typeAmountMIDS 0 %MIDS 1 %MIDS 2 %MIDS 3 %
Unspecified336000
Microscope slides14000
Unspecified336000
Microscope slides14000
Collection Description

Collection Abstract

Collection Staff

Accession Specimens

Size and Digitisation Fields
primary_types_countspecimens_countunits_countother_size_indicatorsowc_size_evaluation
0336,0000
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Extraterrestrial

Manager :

Taxonomic Coverage

TaxonomyQuantityDigitization levels (MIDS)Areas and Countries
Level 0 %Level 1 %Level 2 %Level 3 %
Collected on Earth
7,00095

Terrestrial,Asia Temperate,

Terrestrial,Europe,

Terrestrial,North America,

Other
3,100
Total10,10065.84

Stratigraphy

EonEraPeriodEpochCounterMIDS 0 (%)MIDS 1 (%)MIDS 2 (%)MIDS 3 (%)
Features

Storage

Storage typeAmountMIDS 0 %MIDS 1 %MIDS 2 %MIDS 3 %
Unspecified7000
Microscope slides3100
Unspecified7000
Microscope slides3100
Collection Description

Collection Abstract

Collection Staff

Accession Specimens

Size and Digitisation Fields
primary_types_countspecimens_countunits_countother_size_indicatorsowc_size_evaluation
010,1000
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Other Geo_Biodiversity

Manager :

Taxonomic Coverage

TaxonomyQuantityDigitization levels (MIDS)Areas and Countries
Level 0 %Level 1 %Level 2 %Level 3 %
Other biological or geological objects which fit into none of the other defined categories
120,00063
Total120,00063

Stratigraphy

EonEraPeriodEpochCounterMIDS 0 (%)MIDS 1 (%)MIDS 2 (%)MIDS 3 (%)
Features

Storage

Storage typeAmountMIDS 0 %MIDS 1 %MIDS 2 %MIDS 3 %
Other geo_biodiversity120000
Other geo_biodiversity120000
Collection Description

Collection Abstract

Collection Staff

Accession Specimens

Size and Digitisation Fields
primary_types_countspecimens_countunits_countother_size_indicatorsowc_size_evaluation
0120,0000
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Paleontology

Manager :

Taxonomic Coverage

TaxonomyQuantityDigitization levels (MIDS)Areas and Countries
Level 0 %Level 1 %Level 2 %Level 3 %
Botany & Mycology
210,00022

Terrestrial,Asia Temperate,

Trace fossils
8,0009

Terrestrial,Africa,

Terrestrial,Asia Temperate,

Terrestrial,Asia Tropical,

Terrestrial,North America,

Terrestrial,South America,

Microfossils
33,50028
Other
80,000
Total331,50016.98

Stratigraphy

EonEraPeriodEpochCounterMIDS 0 (%)MIDS 1 (%)MIDS 2 (%)MIDS 3 (%)
Stratigraphy unspecified1226290
Phanerozoic
PhanerozoicCenozoic
PhanerozoicCenozoicQuaternary17598
PhanerozoicCenozoicQuaternaryAny epoch17598
PhanerozoicCenozoicNeogene10469
PhanerozoicCenozoicNeogeneAny epoch10469
PhanerozoicCenozoicPaleogene10828
PhanerozoicCenozoicPaleogeneAny epoch10828
PhanerozoicMesozoic
PhanerozoicMesozoicCretaceous17765
PhanerozoicMesozoicJurassic13637
PhanerozoicMesozoicTriassic4812
PhanerozoicPaleozoic
PhanerozoicPaleozoicPermian6077
PhanerozoicPaleozoicCarboniferous13238
PhanerozoicPaleozoicDevonian13146
PhanerozoicPaleozoicSilurian4412
PhanerozoicPaleozoicOrdovician1162
PhanerozoicPaleozoicCambrian566
Features

Storage

Storage typeAmountMIDS 0 %MIDS 1 %MIDS 2 %MIDS 3 %
Unspecified3000000
Microscope slides40000
Unspecified3000000
Microscope slides40000
Collection Description

Collection Abstract

Collection Staff

Accession Specimens

Size and Digitisation Fields
primary_types_countspecimens_countunits_countother_size_indicatorsowc_size_evaluation
0331,5000
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