Since 12 February, two newly designed rooms in the zoological exhibition at the Museum der Natur Hamburg have been inviting visitors to linger, marvel, discover and join in. Their design encourages visitors to immerse themselves in an exciting dialogue on the subject of science and nature. A creative workshop marks the start of participative events in the "Tiger Lounge". The exhibition series "People make museum" is launched in another newly designed room for special exhibitions.
Browse, marvel and create in the Tiger Lounge
Directly behind the tiger, at the back of the permanent exhibition, the Tiger Lounge opens up: a place of tranquillity, bathed in fresh, natural tones. Cosy cushions and books on various aspects of nature are laid out on the levels that merge into one another.
Visitors can take a stimulating break here during their visit to the exhibition. With its flexible stage, the space is also used for a variety of educational and mediation programmes, such as for participants in the evening event series "Feierabendführungen - Spezial" and "Unerzählte Geschichten - Forschung & mehr!".
Animal upcycling artworks by Matthias Garff and Thomas Putze from the Stern-Wywiol Galerie arouse curiosity about the first programme in which packaging waste is used to create something new. From July, the "Bloc Bird" exhibition will encourage visitors to create pictures whose colours and shapes suggest certain bird species.
Launch of the "People make museums" exhibition series
What happens behind the doors of a research museum - where the exhibition ends and the collection rooms begin; where people explore the diversity of nature with great curiosity, where they prepare animals and plan exhibitions and events for visitors to the museum? What drives them, why did they choose this profession?
In the new exhibition series "People make museums", we introduce people who work at the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change. We show the areas that visitors don't normally see and invite them to join in.
The series begins with three female scientists who present their very personal research world at the Museum der Natur Hamburg and describe why they are so fascinated by the cosmos of butterflies, worms and mussels and why their research is important for everyone.
Over the course of the next two years, other focal points of the exhibition series will reflect why the centuries-old collections are of such enormous value for current research, how animals are prepared for the exhibition with great craftsmanship for eternity, what it takes to create an exhibition and how we enter into dialogue with our visitors about which content. Finally, the last exhibition unit will deal with the development of a new natural history museum.