Nature Museum Senckenberg

Local nameSenckenberg-Museum
LocationWestend Süd, Frankfurt, Germany

The Naturmuseum Senckenberg is a museum of natural history, located in Frankfurt am Main. It is the second-largest of its type in Germany. The Senckenberg Museum is particularly popular with children, who enjoy the extensive collection of dinosaur fossils: Senckenberg boasts the largest exhibition of large dinosaurs in Europe. One notable exhibit is a dinosaur fossil with unique, preserved scaled skin. The museum contains a large and diverse collection of birds with 90,000 bird skins 5,050 egg sets 17,000 skeletons and 3,375 spirit specimens. In 2010, almost 517,000 people visited the museum.The building housing the Senckenberg Museum was erected between 1904 and 1907 outside of the center of Frankfurt in the same area as the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, which was founded in 1914. The museum is owned and operated by the Senckenberg Nature Research Society, which began with an endowment by Johann Christian Senckenberg.

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Opening hours

Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Wed: 9 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Sat - Sun: 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.

The museum is closed on December 24, 31 and January 1.

Admission

Adult (16-65): 10 €
Senior (66+): 7.50 €
Children (6-15): 5 €
Disabled: 6.50 €
Child (0-5): free

More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturmuseum_Senckenberg

Official Website http://www.senckenberg.de/root/index.php?page_id=5247&PHPSESSID=pnfki6ktu2fhuhd6fees8goba0

Twitter https://twitter.com/senckenberg

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SenckenbergWorld

Email info@senckenberg.de

Phone +49 69 75420

Address Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt, Germany

Coordinates 50°7'3.062" N 8°39'7.849" E

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