Natural History Museum

In addition to exhibits from today's animal and plant world, the museum presents numerous testimonies from the geological past of Rhineland-Palatinate. Highlights include the approximately 44 million-year-old ancestral horse from the Eckfelder Maar and the Deinotherium giganteum, the tusked elephant that greets guests at the entrance of the museum.

As an extracurricular educational institution, the Natural History Museum is committed to the democratic core values of our society and offers a comprehensive museum education program. Its central tasks include collecting, preserving, researching, and communicating our common scientific heritage, as well as passing it on to future generations. In doing so, the museum promotes respect for the diversity of nature and deepens understanding of the shared history of humanity and the environment.

With more than 1.5 million collection objects, the Natural History Museum Mainz is one of the largest natural history museums of its kind in Rhineland-Palatinate.