Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum Senckenberg

Senckenberg continuously maintains and expands outstanding collections of recent and fossil animals and plants from all over the world as well as the associated specialist libraries. The extensive data from these collections are the foundation for all taxonomic-systematic, ecological, biogeographic, or biostratigraphic basic research as well as applied, environmentally relevant research. Moreover, under historical aspects the collections represent a valuable cultural heritage, often obtained at considerable expenditures, which therefore ought to be preserved in perpetuity. Senckenberg’s statutory obligations include to “maintain and develop collections as ‘archives of nature’ and to make them available to science as a research infrastructure”. marine, freshwater and terrestrial worldwide. Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista Zoology, Botany Animalia-fossil, Paleontology, Paleobotany Minerals, Meteorites