NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS

By JAMES SANCHEZ

CONTENTS PART I GENERAL ASPECTS 1 IN PAST AND RECENT TIMES ON THE SIGNI CANCE OF ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS IN GERMANY AN INTRODUCTION 3 2 GERMANY S ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS AN INTERNATIONAL AND PERSONAL VIEW ON AN IMPORTANT HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY SCIENTI C RESOURCE 7 3 RESEARCH COLLECTIONS IN GERMANY MODERN TRENDS IN METHODS OF SORTING PRESERVING AND RESEARCH 17 4 NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COLLECTION NETWORKS 29 5 LEGAL AND ETHICAL CHALLENGES FROM COLLECTION MANAGEMENT TO ACCESS AND BENE T SHARING 37 6 MODERN EXHIBITION CONCEPTS 49 PART II THE COLLECTIONS 7 ASCHAFFENBURG THE COLLECTION OF THE BAVARIAN ROYAL NATIONAL ACADEMY OF FORESTRY ASCHAFFENBURG IS ON ITS WAY TO BECOMING A MODERN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 61 8 BAD DU RKHEIM THE ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS AT THE PALATINATE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY PFALZMUSEUM F UR NATURKUNDE POLLICHIA MUSEUM BAD D URKHEIM GERMANY 71 9 BAMBERG THE ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS AT THE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY IN BAMBERG 83 10 BERLIN FROM HUMBOLDT TO HVAC THE ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS OF THE MUSEUM F UR NATURKUNDE LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE IN BERLIN 89 11 BERLIN ZOOLOGISCHE LEHRSAMMLUNG ZOOLOGICAL TEACHING COLLECTION 123 12 BERLIN THE ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTION OF THE STADTMUSEUM BERLIN 135 13 BERLIN THE VETERINARY COLLECTION OF THE INSTITUTE OF VETERINARY ANATOMY DEPARTMENT OF VETERINARY MEDICINE FREIE UNIVERSITA T BERLIN 141 14 BONN ZOOLOGISCHES FORSCHUNGSMUSEUM ALEXANDER KOENIG IN BONN TRANSFORMATION OF A CLASSICAL NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY INTO A BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTION 153 15 BRAUNSCHWEIG STAATLICHES NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM BRAUNSCHWEIG 183 16 BREMEN GEOSCIENCES COLLECTION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN THE RECENT MOLLUSK COMPILATION 197 17 BREMEN ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN 213 18 BREMEN THE ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS OF THE U BERSEE MUSEUM BREMEN UMB 219 19 CHEMNITZ MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY CHEMNITZ IDENTITY THROUGH TRADITION 231 20 DARMSTADT THE ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS OF THE HESSISCHE LANDESMUSEUM DARMSTADT 237 21 DARMSTADT THE ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTION AT THE DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY TU DARMSTADT HISTORY AND PRESENT STATE OF THE ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTION 245 22 DETMOLD LIPPISCHES LANDESMUSEUM DETMOLD 253 23 DRESDEN THARANDT ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS HOUSED AT THE INSTITUTE OF FOREST BOTANY AND FOREST ZOOLOGY OF TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITA T DRESDEN 259 24 DU SSELDORF AQUAZOO L OBBECKE MUSEUM D USSELDORF 269 25 EBERSWALDE ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS OF EBERSWALDE LIKE PHOENIX FROM THE ASHES 281 26 ERFURT THE NATURKUNDEMUSEUM ERFURT 295 27 FLENSBURG NATURWISSENSCHAFTLICHES MUSEUM FLENSBURG NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM FLENSBURG 311 28 FRANKFURT DRESDEN G ORLITZ MU NCHEBERG SENCKENBERG ITS ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS AND THEIR HISTORIES 317 29 GIE EN UNIVERSITY COLLECTIONS JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY GIE EN 373 30 G OTTINGEN THE ZOOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF G OTTINGEN UNIVERSITY 383 PART I GENERAL ASPECTS 1