The Wet Collections The museum’s wet collections are of immense
scientific and cultural value. In September 2010 they found a
new home in the newly restored East Wing, where they are stored
under optimised conditions. Why not come and take a look! After
65 years, a large gap in the Natural History Museum building has
been closed. The historic East Wing, destroyed at the end of the
Second World War, has been rebuilt and now houses the museum’s
extensive wet collection, comprising around one million
zoological objects – from spiders, fish and crustaceans to
amphibians and mammals – in 276,000 vials, preserved in 81,880
litres of ethanol. The Museum für Naturkunde now probably sports
the world’s most advanced collection building for zoological wet
collections. The storage conditions in this new facility meet
all the latest standards in conservation and fire safety.
Moreover, the high-tech collection building is not just reserved
for the exclusive use of scientists and researchers studying
biodiversity and evolut