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Senckenberg Natural History Museum

Senckenberg Natural History Museum

Ludwig Neher & Peter Kulka

Photo: Tilman2007 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Location
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Client / Owner
Senckenberg Nature Research Society
Year
Completed 1907
Access
Tickets required
Typology
Cultural
Style
Baroque

The Senckenberg Natural History Museum in Frankfurt was designed by Ludwig Neher in neo-baroque style, and Peter Kulka designed the Alte Physik and Jügelbau buildings in the expansion. The Senckenberg Nature Research Society owns it, and the article names no separate client. The text says the building was erected from 1904 to 1907 and inaugurated on October 13, 1907. The infobox's 1821 refers to the museum's opening.

The article names no materials. It has 65,000 square feet (6,000 square meters) of exhibition area, and the expansion reached 110,000 square feet (10,000 square meters) by 2018. A Diplodocus donated by the American Museum of Natural History was shown at the 1907 inauguration.

Bombing on March 22, 1944 partly destroyed the building, though exhibits had been evacuated. It is the second-largest natural history museum in Germany and had 874,276 visitors in 2022 to 2023. The article gives no hours.

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