The digital herbarium: a glimpse into the future of botany - Museum Evolution

If you want to understand the present and look into the future, you also have to know the past! In our research collection, we therefore not only preserve fossil plants, but also recent ones. Our collection of such plants, which are still common today, is a jewel for (paleo)botanical research because of its biodiversity. Also thanks to it, we can better understand the evolution of living fossils such as gingko or palm ferns. And so, ultimately, the ecosystems in which they lived and live!
As part of our museum evolution, we are currently making the 45,000 herbarium specimens in the collection digitally accessible. In this way, they can not only enrich research worldwide more easily, but also, for example, provide you with new views of the plant world in your surroundings!
A film team accompanies the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin on its way into the future. On CZcams, you can become part of our #MuseumsEvolution!
The earth is changing. Every second. For 4.56 billion years. But this change is going too fast lately! This is shown by the speed of species extinction and climate change.
We are making the museum fit for new challenges, also structurally. As a place where, in the future, a million visitors a year will be able to engage in an exchange about the preservation of our natural foundations of life. And as a place where more than 200 scientists are already researching life and the earth. We are catapulting the 30 million objects in our collection into the future - analog and digital. For all of us! So that we can work together on solutions - for nature and the cohesion of society.
In cooperation with Hans Otto Film
With music by Dominik Eulberg

[@Gilren1]

Wäre mein Job

[@mfnberlin]

Das ist durchaus denkbar! Wir erschließen unserer Sammlung unter Beachtung internationaler Standards, die wir auch gemeinsam mit anderen Institutionen (weiter-)entwickeln. Unsere Vision ist eine globale Sammlung! Und wir pflegen seit Jahren wissenschaftliche Kontakte nach Kiew, sodass auch das möglich ist. Liebe Grüße aus dem Museum!

[@Gilren1]

Schön - ich meinte aber tatsächlich Kew - Royal Botanical Gardens @@mfnberlin