With the new Evolutioneum natural history museum, the City of Hamburg and the Leibniz Association are closing a gap in the Hanseatic city's museum landscape. With its central, attractive location, the new museum will build on the history and charisma of the important Natural History Museum, which was destroyed during the Second World War. As a center for biodiversity and evolution research as well as a forum for innovative educational and event programs, it will become a beacon for Hamburg as a science location with its valuable collections.
The Stiftung Naturkunde Hamburg was founded in 2017 under the umbrella of the University of Hamburg to help build a new natural history museum in Hamburg, the "Evolutioneum", and to promote research into Hamburg's natural history collections.