The State Museum of Zoology (german: Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde) in Dresden is a

natural history museum A natural history museum or museum of natural history is a scientific institution with natural history collections that include current and historical records of animals, plants, fungi, ecosystems, geology, paleontology, climatology, and more. ...

that houses 10,000–50,000 specimens, including skeletons and large insect collections. Many are

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. The collection suffered war damage and whilst catalogued the database is not computerized. Loans are possible and material can be studied in the collection. The address is Augustusstrasse 2, D-01067

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...

, Germany. The museum's collections contain more than 6 million items from all over the world. The museum publishes the scientific

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''Vertebrate Zoology''.

External links

Official website (German only)Homepage in EnglishWebsite of Vertebrate Zoology

Zoology Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the Animal, animal kingdom, including the anatomy, structure, embryology, evolution, Biological clas ...

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