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Senckenberg Natural History Museum Frankfurt

Senckenberg Natural History Museum Frankfurt

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Senckenberg Natural History Museum Frankfurt

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Location: Hesse, Germany

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1. Jacobiweiher – Alte Oper Frankfurt loop from Mühlberg

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2. Alte Oper Frankfurt – Frankfurt Skyline loop from Leipziger Straße

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3. Palm House – Tropical Houses in the Palmengarten loop from Bockenheimer Warte

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Jake the hiker

October 21, 2019

The Senckenberg Natural History Museum in Frankfurt am Main is (along with the Berlin Museum of Natural History) the largest natural history museum in Germany with exhibits from the fields of biology and geology. A visit is highly recommended

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Carmen 🐿️

February 27, 2021

The Senkenberg Museum is of course a highlight, but the gritty dinosaurs in front of and across from theenkenberg are all. Great for pictures and the great love logo

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February 21, 2025

The Senckenberg Natural History Museum is one of the largest natural history museums in Europe.

The Senckenberg Natural History Museum Frankfurt is one of the largest natural history museums in Germany and shows the diversity of life today as well as the development of living creatures and the transformation of our earth over millions of years. The museum is backed by the research network of the Senckenberg Society for Natural Research, which presents new research results from all areas of biology, paleontology and geology in the museum. The museum impressively presents more than 10,000 extraordinary exhibits, including the largest number of dinosaur species in Germany. In addition to the giant dinosaurs, the Senckenberg exhibition collection includes countless beetles and iridescent butterflies, a colorful world of birds and the amazing inhabitants of the seas. A highlight of the museum are the themed rooms "Deep Sea" and "Marine Research" as well as the staging of an Indonesian coral reef, which allow the amazing underwater habitat to be experienced with all the senses. The Aha?! Research workshop is the new hands-on area in the Senckenberg Natural History Museum in Frankfurt. Here, researchers of all ages can get active themselves: examine fascinating objects from nature, help with real research projects and talk to Senckenberg scientists.

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October 27, 2025

The figures depicted on the façade above the main entrance are taken from both Greek and Roman mythology. At the very top, enthroned above the entire façade, sits Chronos. Accompanied by two putti, he is depicted as an old man with an hourglass and a scythe—a symbol of the passing of time and death.

To the left and right of Chronos—on the vault of the pediment—are two boys holding animals: the boy on the left a bird, the boy on the right a fish—symbolizing the division of the world into the spheres of life: air, sea, and earth.

To the left of the three gable windows, Europa sits on a bull. Europa was a lover of the father of the gods, Zeus, who fell in love with her and approached her in the form of a bull. This bull carried Europa on its back to Crete, where it transformed back into Zeus and fathered several offspring with her. Europa settled on the island, so its history can be interpreted as a symbol of "arrival," "delivery," and "colonization of the earth," and thus also as a symbol of the terrestrial realm.

To the right of the three gable windows, on the same level as Europa, Poseidon, the god of the sea, sits enthroned on a hippocampus—a hybrid of a horse (front) and a fish (back).

Immediately below Chronos, within the semicircular red sandstone relief, is, among other things, a seated female figure writing something on her tablet: Calliope, one of the nine muses. She was the muse of epic poetry, stringed instruments—and science.

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Senckenberg Natural History Museum Frankfurt

1. Jacobiweiher – Alte Oper Frankfurt loop from Mühlberg

2. Alte Oper Frankfurt – Frankfurt Skyline loop from Leipziger Straße

3. Palm House – Tropical Houses in the Palmengarten loop from Bockenheimer Warte

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