New museum

Visitors will be able to experience the new Evolutioneum natural history museum at a central, attractive location in the Hanseatic city. Following a location potential analysis, the Hamburg Senate's steering group opted for a location in HafenCity in November 2022.

In the triad of research, collection and exhibition, the new building will build on the history of the Hamburg Natural History Museum, which was destroyed in the Second World War, as an integrative research museum of the 21st century. Outstanding scientific collections with over ten million original objects and an infrastructure for biodiversity and evolutionary research in the fields of zoology, geology-palaeontology and mineralogy form the core of the exhibition concept.

As part of the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB), the research museum will investigate the changes in biological diversity worldwide and discuss key issues of our present day together with the public. The Evolutioneum attaches great importance to the role of humans and their influence on nature. After all, in times of rapid environmental change, from the climate to habitats and living organisms, humans have long since become a decisive factor in evolution.

Parts of the collection can currently be visited at the three locations of the Museum der Natur Hamburg. With the new building, the three locations will finally be reunited under one roof.

Please direct press inquiries about the "Evolutioneum" construction project to:

Authority for Science, Research, Equality and Districts

Press office: pressestelle@bwfgb.hamburg.de