Tuesday, October 6, 2020

GERMANY ~ Natural History Museum - Braunschweig ~

... Blogpost with two related postcards... this one shows the outside of the museum... the Natural History Museum has a large number of attractions for visitors... one special attraction is the aquarium, showing a variety of fish and reptiles in aquariums and terrariums that are cared for by professionals... the indigenous fauna, including species now extinct in Germany, is on show in 29 dioramas that are of national renown... you can see two of them  HERE and HERE... with cute stamps💚 and special postmarks from the new series of baby animals... Big Thanks Dustin! (✿◠‿◠) 
.... This nice statue of an otter welcomes the visitors to the museum... with sweet otter stamp and special postmark💙...
The State Natural History Museum is a zoology museum.

The museum was founded in 1754. The scientific collections include 3,000 mammal specimens, 50,000 bird specimens, 10,300 bird eggs, 4,000 skulls and skeletons, 1,000 fish, amphibians and reptile specimens. Insects are represented by 80,000 Lepidoptera and 85,000 Coleoptera and there are 100,000 mollusca and 5,000 fossils. 
Stamps:Baby Animals 
(Issued 03-09-2020)



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