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Frankfurts Natural History Museum is the Best in All of Germany
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May 26th, 2010 >> Travel
Frankfurt am Main, is host to the Natural History Museum in Senckenberg , which has earned a national reputation for being one of Germany’s best museums. Every year, over 400,000 people visit the museum, which has a comprehensive collection of dinosaur bones and exhibitions on the history of the Earth and its evolution. In 2003, the Natural History Museums building, built in 1907, was lavishly renovated and modernized. The Museum has one of the most important natural history collections in all of Europe, with a majority of the thousands of unique exhibits display an array of extremely rare objects.
Visitors are treated to sensational exhibits like the anaconda that is devouring a wild boar, or the most renowned and reverent skeleton cast of ‘Lucy’, who lived more than 3 million years ago in whats known as Ethiopia in today’s world. The best attraction at the Museum include the ‘Dinos’, which strike awe and wonderment in all who cast their eyes upon the skeletons of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, raptors, beaked dragons and so much more. Messel pit fossils are expertly displayed by the Senckenberg Research Institute , which oversee the efforts of the UNESCO world natural heritage site, which also helps supports organisations that contribute to the Museums collections. Currently, the special exhibition ‘Under Our Feet’, explores the creatures that move underground, like worms, snails, fungi, insects and small mammals; all of which form a fantastic, complicated network of intricate relationships as they go about their daily life. Visitors are treated to 3-dimensional models of soil organisms in 10 to 1000 times magnification, plus they get to view specimens and films that illustrate the beauty and diversity of the life happening underneath their very feet.
If you’re planning a visit to the museum, many of the hotels in Frankfurt guest service may offer discount tickets to the Natural History Museum, located at Senckenderganlage 25. Check for guided tours and special lectures from people in the field of biology, geology and palaeontology. The Museum has impressively succeeded in vividly capturing the fascination or both young and old visitors with its history of planet Earth.