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Opening hours on request at bibliothek@smns-bw.de Special library for botany, zoology, paleontology and geology/mineralogy The scientific reference library is primarily used by museum’s staff,…

Paleontology The palaeontological collection comprises about 4,1 million objects. The focus is on finds from Baden-Württemberg, with rich material from famous fossil lagerstätten (Kupferzell,…

Entomology The entomological collections include more than 5.5 million specimens from all over the world, thus forming the largest part of the museum’s inventory. Its major part holds about 4.8…

Botany The botanical collection – consisting of the herbarium (plants and algae) and the fungarium (fungi and slime moulds) – comprises a total of around one million individual specimens.…

Research Importance of our Collections The collections of the SMNS are based on the Kunst- and Naturalienkabinett of the dukes of Württemberg. In 1791, the Naturalienkabinett—the State Museum…

An international team led by palaeontologists Dr. Stephan Spiekman and Prof. Dr. Rainer Schoch from the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart has described Mirasaura, an early Triassic reptile…

Museum shops Nature to read and play with: technical literature, books, posters, toys, jewellery and other unusual articles – you will find all of that in our two museum shops.  And of…