New Museum Building
All of the museum's research areas will be represented in the new museum building, where visitors will experience geology, biology, zoology, and climate history as a unified narrative focusing on humanity's place in nature. Here, visitors will be invited on a journey through the animal, plant, and mineral kingdoms, opening a door to the exploration of the world around us.
The museum's vision is to strengthen the connection between people and nature. We aim to inspire, engage, and provide everyone with the opportunity to enjoy, understand, and care for the diversity of nature, whether through citizen-driven research like Citizen Science projects, active nature conservation, or simply sparking a curious awareness during a walk in the woods.
In the upcoming exhibitions in the new museum building, we will install over 3,000 objects from our collections. They come in all shapes and sizes, including the dinosaur Misty – our 17-metre-long Diplodocus, the skeleton of the enormous bowhead whale and the Glyptodon.
Behind the scenes, the museum's conservators are busy with the extensive work of registering and processing the museum's objects so that they can be moved safely to the new museum building and stores.
Behind the scenes on the construction site
The construction
Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects and architect Claus Pryds designed the museum, which will soon open in the corner of the Botanical Garden in the heart of Copenhagen. This brings together the Zoological Museum, the Geological Museum and the Botanical Museum into a world-class museum, while the Botanical Garden will be a central element in the future museum experience.
When completed, the new museum will house a natural history collection of more than 14 million specimens. The collection of skeletons, animals preserved in spirits, insects on needles, plant specimens on herbarium sheets, fossils and minerals document the diversity and evolution of life, and form the basis for the museum's research, education and outreach activities.
The new museum will make it possible to remain at the forefront of scientific research and strengthen the important food chain for science education.
The new museum is expected to open to the public in a couple of years.
The new museum building is supported by the VILLUM Foundation, the Novo Nordisk Foundation, the Aage and Johanne Louis-Hansen Foundation and the Obel Family Foundation. The new exhibitions are supported by the A.P. Møller Foundation.