Research projects Team Biodiversity Monitoring Networks At the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, our Department is dedicated to exploring how genetic and phenotypic variation within…

Team Botany Botany Collection The research of the Botany Department is centred on current topics in the ecology, systematics, and evolutionary biology of plants and fungi (including lichens).…

Entomology Collection Entomological research encompasses the largest group of animals with more than one million described species. Research at the SMNS focuses on Coleoptera (beetles),…

Team Paleontology Paleontology Collection The study of fossil vertebrates and invertebrates profits from the rich fossil lagersätten of Baden-Württemberg to a special degree. Currently,…

Dr. Wolfgang Rähle – volunteer work – Malakozoologie (2004 - † 2019)  Zoology Collection By means of integrative approaches we pursue projects on the systematics, biogeography,…

General rules We consider the Science Blog of the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart (SMNS) to be an invitation to exchange ideas on scientific topics. We would be very happy about a…

Everyone knows our exhibitions at the Museum am Löwentor and Schloss Rosenstein. But what happens behind the scenes? Where we store around twelve million collection objects from four centuries,…

Research Interests I am interested in the evolution of olfaction in vertebrates. I previously focused on the morpho-anatomical aspects of olfactory-related structures in mammals (turbinates,…