Our Logo
Since September 2022, the Bamberg Museum of Natural History (NKMB) has got a new logo. The graphic reorientation with a classically simple design is intended to make the museum more publicly visible and unmistakable and to emphasize the uniqueness of its collections. The logo features both a pterosaur and a quagga in a circular arrangement. The animals are symbolic of the two pillars of our museum collections, the biological and earth sciences, but also have a concrete connection to our house.
The pterosaur is the most spectacular find of the NKMB research excavations in the Wattendorf fossil site so far. It is a new genus, soon to be officially published, that lived in the upper Jurassic period 154 million years ago in what is now Franconia. The quagga is an extinct subspecies of zebra. The Bamberg quagga is one of only about two dozen specimens preserved in museums worldwide. It also symbolizes the transience of the nature surrounding us and our mission to document, research and protect the animal and plant world.
In terms of color, our logo with its dark blue and gold tones is based on the color scheme in the historic Bird Hall of the NKMB, the only original preserved museum showroom of the 19th century. The initial idea of the logo content came from the museum director Dr. Oliver Wings, the graphic structure was designed by the paleo artist Joschua Knüppe and the exact arrangement and connection with the lettering was created by Monika Waigand from the General Museum Workshops of the SNSB.