Saturday, 1 February to Friday, 28 February
Interactive exhibition: Museum experience
Location: Museum of Natural History Chemnitz
Admission: Visits to the interactive exhibition are free of charge, an admission ticket is required for the permanent and special exhibitions.
A forest that stretches back 291 million years into the history of the earth and a permanent exhibition that has been standing for 20 years - time to change something in our museum! We want to retell the stories about the life and death of our fossilised tree giants and bring much more from the collections to light. Over the past few years, children and young people have been thinking about what our museum should offer in the future. Using games, animated films and audio contributions they developed themselves, they brought prehistoric dinosaurs, scorpions and giant dragonflies to life for the experience level of the new permanent exhibition. The resulting interactive stations were tested by young and old alike. We took these requests for changes on board and now it's time to discover, play and dream again.
Saturday, 1 February to Friday, 28 February
Special exhibition: Wild neighbours - animals of the Ore Mountains
Location: Museum of Natural History Chemnitz
Admission: 4 euros, concessions 2.50 euros, children and young people up to 18 years free of charge
From the water bat measuring just a few centimetres to the 300-kilogram red deer and from the nocturnal predator eagle owl to the slender diurnal adder - the fauna of the Ore Mountains is
The fauna of the Ore Mountains is diverse and has many surprises in store alongside the well-known representatives of the four-legged and bird world. For example, the crane, which is considered a bird of happiness in many cultures: breeding cranes were observed on the Ore Mountain ridge for the first time in 2021. Or the shy pine marten, which looks very similar to its cousin, the stone marten - but unlike the latter, avoids human settlements. Or the black grouse - a chicken bird threatened with extinction, whose largest habitat north of the Alps is the moors and sparse forests of the Ore Mountains. And last but not least, the wolf - a success story, as the reintroduction of wolves is a natural process that humans are only supporting by not intervening.
The exhibition "Wild Neighbours | Animals of the Ore Mountains", which the Museum of Natural History Chemnitz opened at the TIETZ in March 2024, portrays a total of 28 animal species.
On display are fascinating images by six animal photographers, flanked by original specimens of the animals. Wildlife camera footage from various locations in the Ore Mountains, which was set up as part of the wolf monitoring programme, is also shown in a continuous loop on four screens. The exhibition takes visitors through the typical habitats of the animal species, from urban areas to the heavily over-developed cultural landscape to near-natural forests and mountain regions. In addition to native animal species such as the wild boar and the cuckoo, the exhibition also includes invasive species such as the raccoon and the raccoon dog, which were introduced by humans and have been spreading in Central Europe for several decades. This also applies to two of the four deer species presented: While the roe deer and the red deer are native, the fallow deer and the sika deer came to Germany as hunting game.
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