Die heute im Bamberger Naturkunde-Museum vorhandenen naturwissenschaftlichen Sammlungen gehen auf das Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts zurück. Seit dem Jahr 2004 konzentrieren sich die Sammlungsaktivitäten auf die Sicherung des Naturerbes Fossilien der Wattendorfer Plattenkalke.

The paleontological collections today house an estimated 30,000 objects from Germany and from abroad. The objects include finds from all geological eras, but have a clear focus on regional sites from the Jurassic period. In the last two decades, the collection has been considerably expanded by the museum’s own excavations in the Upper Jurassic plate […]

The Mineralogical Collection contains about 10,000 objects. Its oldest parts date back to the first half of the 19th century. Especially curator Andreas Haupt extended the collection in the middle of the 19th century by purchase and exchange (e.g. Krantz/Bonn) or by gifts (e.g. Schönlein/Zurich, Berlin). In 1858 he bought part of the collection of […]

The “Pomological Cabinet” is a collection of models of fruit varieties. Such collections were made from the 18th to the 20th century to document the appearance of particular varieties. Models of fruits were made by different vendors in many countries of Europe and also in the New World, using a wide variety of techniques and […]