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The Braunschweig State Natural History Museum, founded in 1753/1754, in the period of enlightenment, is one of the oldest museums worldwide. Its collections are of medium size, but they contain a considerable number of eighteenth- or nineteenth-century specimens of rare and even extinct species. The bird collection is especially remarkable. It contains about 60,000 specimens, representing about half of the world’s bird species. The museum has been renovated recently. Current research activities center around vertebrates, focusing on reptiles, both recent and fossil.
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Joger, U. (2018). BRAUNSCHWEIG: Staatliches Naturhistorisches Museum Braunschweig. In: Beck, L. (eds) Zoological Collections of Germany. Natural History Collections. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44321-8_15
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