Themed tours

In our guided tours you will learn about many exciting stories. A museum visit that is fun! The Bamberg Museum of Natural History offers you direct contact with selected exhibits during guided tours. Visitors of all ages are invited. Depending on the request, the guided tour will be individually designed by us. The guided tours are interesting for:

• Kindergarden children
• School classes
• Clubs
• For birthdays of children or adults
• Family celebrations
• Teacher trainings
• Other groups

A guided tour costs Mon – Fri 30€/ 40€ Sat, Sun and holidays (plus museum admission). Guided tours are also possible outside opening hours.

Tableware is provided by the museum. Unfortunately, we are not allowed to prepare food, so you would have to bring it yourself.

Themed tours

F1 Bird Hall & Lying Stones

(4 – 99 years, for all ages)

When you enter the Bird Hall, you undoubtedly feel transported to another time. At the same time, you wonder if this stately room has always been a museum or who founded it. Come with us on an exciting journey through the Bird Hall, smile at the stories about the Würzburg Lying Stones or get to know the wax fruits from the 19th century?

F2 The Bird Hall – a place of biodiversity with history

(4 – 99 years, for all ages)

In the showcases of the historical Bird Hall from 1791 you can find a wealth of different stuffed animals. Many of these animals can tell their own story – for example, on which continent and habitat they live, who their enemies are or what these animals feed on. Here in the Bird Hall, you can view the animals, arranged by relationship, at your leisure and be fascinated by their strategies.

F3 Franconia on the Jura beach

(4 – 99 years, for all ages)

Be it the pterosaur, a marine crocodile, turtles or angelsharks – all these can be found in the plate limestones of Wattendorf, i.e. right on our doorstep. But how do fossilized sea creatures get to the area around Bamberg? Dive into an exciting chapter of our earth’s history.

F4  Scales, feathers, shells

(4 – 99 years, for all ages)

… or a coat of hair – all these are body shells. Not only do they look very different, their function can also vary. For example, some animals use their shells to protect themselves from heat or annoying enemies. Feathers are used for flying, of course, but they also keep warm – and when we think of feather beds or down jackets, they do not only help the birds themselves. Other animals show their counterpart with their body cover if they are angry and some animal groups can even be distinguished by their coverings.

F5 Evolution

(Upper secondary school)

The basic principle of evolution can be explained using the example of exhibits in the bird room or fossils. Using individual animals, it becomes clear what a species is or selection, mutation and variation. Concepts such as homology, analogy or convergence can be vividly explained by example.