Events of the Chemnitz Museum of Natural History in November 2022
Tuesday, 1 November to Wednesday, 30 November
Interactive exhibition: Museum experience
A forest that stretches back 291 million years into the Earth's history 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 have implemented these change requests and now you can once again discover, play and dream.
Admission: Visiting the interactive exhibition: Erlebnisraum Museum is free of charge. (A valid admission ticket is required for the tour of the permanent exhibition).
Thursday, 24 November to Wednesday, 30 November
Special exhibition: Highlights of nature photography 2022
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 24 years. This year's international photo competition was again very popular - a jury selected the winning images from 15,750 pictures by 836 photographers from 41 countries. At the Museum für Naturkunde Chemnitz, however, the exhibition will be enhanced in a very special way.
Selected photographs are 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.
Tuesday, 1 November, 5 to 6 p.m.
AG Naturforscher: A look behind the scenes - How is an exhibition created? - Part 3
Working group for nature-loving children between the ages of 6 and 13
Location: Museum of Natural History, Museum Education Cabinet
Admission: free of charge
Pre-registration required at zierold(at)naturkunde-chemnitz.de.
In the third part, we will collect further questions on the topics "Extinct like the dodo and the passenger pigeon" and "Life in the oceans". Then it's time to make a decision! Which exhibition theme do we want to realise with which objects? How do you decide as biologists, taxidermists, palaeontologists, museum guards, mediators and public relations officers?
Wednesday, 23 November, 6.30 to 7.30 pm
Friends of the Museum of Natural History Chemnitz e.V.
Venue: TIETZ, event hall
Admission: free of charge
News from the swarm earthquake region Vogtland/NW Bohemia: Quaternary volcanism and recent concealed magma uplifts. Speaker: Dr Horst Kämpf, Potsdam