Events at the Museum of Natural History in November 2021
Monday, 1 to 30 November
Experience box: Creatures of the night (offer for independent realisation in the institution)
Location: Museum of Natural History
Costs: Basic materials for games 5 euros per box, creative activities 1 euro per person
Whether on land, at sea or in the air - you can find nocturnal animals in places where you certainly wouldn't expect to find them. Together we will go on a journey and explore the local creatures of the night. As a creative finale, we will design hedgehog scratch pictures.
The experience boxes make it possible to experience natural history topics in a playful way outside the Museum of Natural History. They consist of basic materials (instructions for games) and the desired set of handicraft utensils.
The experience box is packed individually, so advance booking is necessary by e-mail: ehle(at)naturkunde-chemnitz.de
Monday, 1 to 30 November 2021
Experience the museum digitally
Visiting the museum is currently only possible to a limited extent. For this very reason, we invite you to visit digitally. https://www.naturkundemuseum-chemnitz.de/l/?shoutrlabs.
Further offers for young and old, which sweeten learning at home but also leisure time, can be found at https://www.naturkundemuseum-chemnitz.de/de/virtueller-Besuch.html.
Thursday, 18 November 2021 until 9 January 2022
Special exhibition: Highlights of nature photography
Venue: Museum of Natural History
Admission: Adults 4 euros, concessions 2.50 euros, children and young people up to 18 years free of charge
The Highlights of Nature Photography has been running for 23 years. This year's international photo competition was again very popular - a jury selected the winning images from almost 16,916 pictures by over 883 photographers from 37 countries. The winner of the 2021 competition is Fran Rubia from Spain. His picture "The Observer" shows a red fox sitting on a patch of snow with its back to the photographer. The photo was taken in Yellowstone National Park in the USA. The fox was obviously watching the snow below and listening to see if there was anything to hunt. "Everything is right: the posture of the fox, the view from behind, yet the viewer can feel the animal's attention, the white of the snow is an ideal setting for the colourful main motif," said the competition organisers. The judges commented on their decision by saying that the picture had a profound symbolic effect, especially in the current times: "Don't look back at what has been. Looking forward to an uncertain future. Peace despite uncertainty - almost all of us have experienced all of this in the past year."
At the Museum für Naturkunde Chemnitz, however, the exhibition will be enhanced in a special way. Selected photographs are carefully arranged with zoological specimens from the museum's own collection, so that a spatial aspect is added as an exciting element when viewing the images.
Monday, 1 to 30 November 2021
Interactive exhibition: Museum experience
Location: Museum of Natural History
Admission: free (A valid admission ticket is required for the tour of the permanent exhibition and the special exhibition "Highlights of Nature Photography")
A forest that goes 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. In recent 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 primordial 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 have taken these change requests on board and now it's time to discover, play and dream again.