Botanical State Collection Munich
The Botanical State Collection is a research institution of the Bavarian State Natural Science Collections for the study of biodiversity in the field of plants and fungi. Its tasks include phylogenetic research, the development of modern methods of kinship research and the maintenance, expansion and processing of the plant and fungus collections. These collections cover the whole world and all groups of plants and fungi.
The Botanical State Collection is also an international center for the collection and provision of information on biodiversity. It does this by providing information, issuing scientific publications, lending collection material for research purposes and developing scientific databases for the Internet. learn more!
Munich State Zoological Collection (ZSM)
The Munich State Zoological Collection (ZSM) is a collection-oriented research institution of the Bavarian State Natural Science Collections. With a total of approx. 20 million inventory units, it is one of the three largest zoological research museums in Germany. The world's largest butterfly collection will soon comprise more than 10 million individual specimens. learn more!
Bavarian State Natural History Collections
This state collection is an institution of the Bavarian State Natural History Collections and deals with the analysis of past human populations, mainly from the Bavarian region. Archaeological human skeletal finds, which are preserved in the collection and made available for research and educational purposes, serve as a source of information. learn more!
Munich Botanical Garden
The Munich-Nymphenburg Botanical Garden, with an area of 21.20 hectares and over 400,000 visitors a year, is one of the most important botanical gardens in the world. Around 14,000 plant species are cultivated here. Learn more!
Herbarium
The herbarium is used on the one hand to identify plants (by comparison with previously named material) and on the other hand to document the species occurring at a particular place at a particular time. Flowering and fruiting times are also documented in this way. The herbarium thus provides data for ecological research, nature conservation and not least for medicine. Every year, its staff also deal with inquiries from the public or authorities about poisonous plants, cultivated plants and invasive plants. find out more!
Geobio-Center
Since 2002, the Center for Geobiology and Biodiversity Research at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (GeoBio-CenterLMU) aims to promote transdisciplinary cooperation in research and teaching of Geobiology and Biodiversity between three faculties of LMU (Biology, Geosciences, and Veterinary Medicine), and the Bavarian Natural History Collections (SNSB), as well as other, external, institutions as a single, institutionalized platform.