Events at the Museum of Natural History in October 2021
Monday, 18 to 29 October
Lynx, wolf & wildcat - our wild forests (for after-school groups)
Location: Museum of Natural History
Admission: Creative programme (1 euro per person)
We immerse ourselves in the world of our local forests and follow the tracks of rare wild animals. Together we will explore the questions: Why does the lynx have tufted ears? Where does the fear of wolves come from? How do wild and domestic cats differ? As a creative finale, we will make lynx ears.
Please register by e-mail: ehle(at)naturkunde-chemnitz.de or call 0371 488-4555.
Thursday, 21 to 27 October, 1 to 2.30 pm
A mysterious museum! (for individual visitors)
Venue: Museum of Natural History
Admission: free
An autumn storm has swept through our museum and has left everything in a mess. Little mistakes and puzzles have suddenly appeared everywhere, waiting to be found and solved. Some objects have even moved and are blocking the exit. Join us on a discovery tour through the exhibition and help us to sort out the chaos.
Please register by e-mail: fenster(at)naturkunde-chemnitz.de or call 0371 488-4557.
Note: The "Window into Earth's History" project is funded by the ESF.
Friday, 1 to 31 October
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.
You can find further offers for young and old that sweeten learning at home and leisure time at https://www.naturkundemuseum-chemnitz.de/de/virtueller-Besuch.html
Friday, 1 to 31 October
Special exhibition: Petrified weather
Venue: Museum of Natural History
Admission: Adults 4 euros, concessions 2.50 euros, children and young people up to 18 years free of charge
Almost every weather element leaves fossilised traces. A bright flash of lightning can strike the sandy ground and fuse the grains of sand together. The resulting lightning tube still tells us about the thunderstorm event centuries later. Heavy rain leaves impact marks in the ground. Under certain conditions, the rain marks are preserved for millions of years. As in a criminal case, the exhibition uncovers fossilised traces of weather, atmospheric conditions and climate.
Taking the weather into your own hands? Yes, the special exhibition also offers this at a total of nine interactive stations. There is also a digital exhibition guide with discovery tours and games for young and old weathermen.
Friday, 1 to 31 October
Interactive exhibition: Museum experience
Location: Museum of Natural History
Admission: free
(A valid admission ticket is required for the tour of the museum's permanent exhibition and the special exhibition Petrified Weather).
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. 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.