Museums, Collections and Gardens of Münster University

Research and teaching at Münster Univerity happens not only in leturs halls, libraries and laboratories. A lot of studyprogrammes and research projects make use of scientific collections, some of these are internationally reknown. Three university-museums are open to the public, as well as two gardens: the Botanical Garden and the Medicinal Plant Garden.

For more information on the scientific collections at Münster University listed below please check here [de].

View into the Archaeologicial Museum
© Archäologisches Museum

Archaeological Museum

Research- and Studycollection as well as public exhibition of the Institute for Classical Archaeology and Christian Archaeology

Domplatz 20-22 | 48143 Münster
Tel: +49 251 83-25412, Fax: +49 251 83-25422
hnieswan@uni-muenster.de

Homepage [de]

View of the universities Botanical Garden

Botanical Garden

Object of study, leisure zone and protected space for endangered flora

Schlossgarten 3 | 48149 Münster
Tel: +49 251 83-23827, Fax: +49 251 83-23800
botanischer.garten@uni-muenster.de

Homepage [de]

View into the Bible Museum
© WWU - MünsterView

Bible Museum

Studycollection and exhibition space of the Institute for New Testament Textual Research

Pferdegasse 1 | 48143 Münster
Tel: +49 251 83-22580, Fax: +49 251 83-22582
bibelmuseum@uni-muenster.de

Homepage [de]

View in the museums magazine
© WWU - Peter Leßmann

Geomuseum

Because of a thorough renovation of the baroque museums building the museum is closed until further notice.

Pferdegasse 3 | 48143 Münster
Tel: +49 251 83-33964, Fax: +49 251 83-33968
geomuseum@uni-muenster.de

Homepage [de]

Collections, gardens and museums of Münster University

  • © Prosektur Anatomie

    Anatomical Collection

    FB 05 - Faculty of Medicine
    Prosektur of the Institute für Anatomy

    Head of Collections: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Knabe

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  • View into the Archeological Museum
    © Archäologisches Museum

    Archaeological Museum

    FB08 - Faculty of History and Philosophy
    Institute for Classical Archaeology and Christian Archaeology

    Director: Prof. Dr. Achim Lichtenberger

    Custodian: Dr. H.-Helge Nieswandt

    Homepage [de]

  • View in to the Medicinal plant Garden
    © Krueger/IPBP

    Medicinal Plant Garden

    FB 12 - Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy
    Institute for Pharmaceutical Biology and Phytochemistry

    Head of collections: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hensel

    Homepage [de]

  • Bakelit-Collection

    Maintained by the Central Custodian [en]

     

  • © WWU /INTF/Bibelmuseum

    Bible Museum

    FB 1 - Faculty of Protestant Theology
    Institute for New Testament Textual Research

    Head of Collections: Prof. Dr. Holger Strutwolf

    Custodian: Dr. Jan Graefe

    Homepage [de]

  • View into the collections storage
    © WWU - Eckhard Kluth

    Biblical-Archaeological Collection

    FB 2 - Faculty of Catholic Theology
    Institute for contemporary history and religious hisory of the Old Testament

    Head of collections: Prof. Dr. Johannes Schnocks

     

  • © WWU - Peter Grewer

    Botanical Garden

    FB 13: Faculty of Biology
    Institute for evolution and biodiversity

    Director: Prof. Dr. Kai Müller

    Head of collections: Dr. Dennise Stefan Bauer

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  • Lanternslide-Collection on "Hausforschung"

    FB 8: Faculty of History and Philosophy
    Institute for cultural anthropology / European Ethnology

    Head of collections: Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Timm

  • © Wolfgang Knabe

    Embryological Collection Kuhn

     

    FB 05 - Faculty of Medicine
    Prosektur of the Institute für Anatomy

     

    Head of Collections: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Knabe

     

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  • © Institut

    Studygarden of the Centre for the Didactics of Biology

    FB 13: Faculty of Biology
    Centre for the Didactics of Biology

    Custodian: PD Dr. Gesine Hellberg-Rode

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  • © WWU - Peter Leßmann

    Geological Palaeontological Collection

    FB 14: Faculty of Geosciences
    Institute for Geology and Palaeontology

    Custodian: N.N.

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  • Geomuseum

    FB 14: Faculty of Geosciences

    Director: Prof. Dr. Harald Strauß

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  • Historical Pianoforte Collection Beetz
    © Barbara Plenge

    Historical Pianoforte Collection Beetz

    FB 15: University of Music

    Head of collections: Prof. Ulrich Beetz

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  • © WWU - Eckhard Kluth

    Art Collections of the University

    Central Custorian

    Custodian: Dr. Eckhard Kluth

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  • Studycollection of the Department for Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology

    FB 8: Faculty of History and Philosophy
    Seminar for History - Department for Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology

    Head of collections: Prof. Dr. Ralf Gleser

    Custodian: Dr. Claudia Tappert

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  • © WWU - Eckhard Kluth

    Studycollection of the Centre for the Didactics of Biology

    FB 13: Faculty of Biology
    Centre for the Didactics of Biology

    Head of collections: Prof. Dr. Marcus Hammann

  • © Institut für Ethik, Geschichte und Theorie der Medizin

    Medical Historic Collection Rothschuh

    FB 5: Faculty of Medicine
    Institute for Medical Ethics, History and Theory

    Head of collections: Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Hofer

  • © Addi Bischoff

    Meteorites Collections

    FB 14: Faculty of Geosciences
    Institute for Planetology

    Head of collections: Prof. Dr. Addi Bischoff

  • © Institut

    Mineralogical-Petrographical Collection

    FB 14: Faculty of Geosciences
    Institute for Mineralogy

    Custodian: PD Dr. Peter Schmidt-Beurmann

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  • © WWU - Eckhard Kluth

    Collection of Montessori Materials

    FB 6: Faculty of Educational and Social Science
    Institute for Educational Science | Learning Workshop for individual promotion and pedagogic diagnostics

    Head of collections: Prof. Dr. Christian Fischer, Dipl.Psych.

    Cusordian: Prof. em. Dr. Harald Ludwig

  • © Jeanette Crout

    Collection of Medical Moulds

    FB 5: Faculty of Medicine
    Clinic for Dermatology

    Head of Collections: Prof. Dr. Sonja Ständer

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  • © Robert Dylka

    Collection of Antique Numismatics

    FB 8: Faculty of History and Philosophy
    Institute of Classical Archaeology and Christian Archaeology | Research unit for Antique Numismatics

    Head of collections: Prof. Dr. Achim Lichtenberger

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  • Pathological Collection

    FB 5: Faculty of Medicine
    Gerhard-Domagk-Institute for Pathologie

    Department Head: Prof. Dr. med Eva Wardelmann

    Custodian: Prof. em. Dr. Klaus-Michael Müller

  • Pop-Archive

    FB 9: Faculty of Philology
    German Department

    Head of Collections: Prof. Dr. Moritz Baßler

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  • © WWU - Eckhard Kluth

    Collection of the Seminar for Religious Studies

    FB 2: Faculty of Catholic Theology
    Seminar for Religious Studies | Institute for und Institut für Mission Studies and  und non-European Theologies

    Heads of Collections: Prof. Dr. Astrid Reuter / Prof. Dr. Norbert Hintersteiner

  • Holl Collection

    FB 9: Faculty of Philology
    Institute for Arabistic and  für Arabistik und Islamic Studies

    Custodian: Dr. Monika Springberg-Hinsen

  • Collection of the Institute for Comperative History of Towns

    FB 8: Faculty of History and Philosophy
    Institute for Comperative History of Towns

    Custodian: Ria Hänisch

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  • © WWU - Peter Grever

    Remy Collection

    FB 1: Faculty of Protestant Theology
    Institute for New Testament Textual Research | Bible Museum

    Head of collections: Prof. Dr. Holger Strutwolf

    Custodian: Dr. Jan Graefe

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  • Special Collections of the University Archive

    University Archive

    Head of Department: Dr. Sabine Happ

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  • Special Collections of the University and State Library

    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek

    Director: Dr. Beate Tröger

    Department 3: Historical Collections
    Department Head: Dr. Henning Dreyling

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  • © WWU - Emanuel Hünber

    Sport-Historical Movies-Collection

    Zentrale Kustodie

    formerly FB 7: Faculty of Psychology/Sport and Exercise Sciences
    Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences

University Collections which have been surrendered or destroyed, are lost or obscure

  • Ethnological Studycollection Kröger

    formerly
    FB 8: Faculty of History and Philosophy
    Institute for Ethnology

    Surrendered to the "Forum der Völker", Werl

  • Collection of Apparatus for Experimental Gestalt Psychologie

    formerly
    FB 7: Faculty of Psychology/Sport and Exercise Sciences
    Institute of Psychology

    Surrendered to the Adolf-Würth-Centre for the History of Psychology at Würzburg University

  • Herbarium of Münster University (MSUN)

    formerly?
    FB 13: Faculty of Biology
    Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity

    Obscure

  • "Kunstkabinett" (Studycollection for Art History)

    formerly
    FB 8: Faculty of History and Philosophy
    Institute for Art History

    Destroyed during World War II.

  • Studycollections for Plant Models

    formerly
    FB 13: Faculty of Biology
    former Botanical Institute

    Surrendered to the LWL-Museum for Natural History, Münster

     

  • Studycollection for Animal Preparations

    formerly?
    Fachbereich 13 - Biologie
    Institut für Allgemeine Zoologie

    Obscure

  • Educational Charts Collections of the former Institute for Zoology and Genetics

    formerly?
    FB 13: Faculty of Biology
    Institute for Zoology

    Obscure

  • Museum for the History of Leprosy (Gesllschaft für Leprakunde e.V.)

    Not associated with Münster University

    Homepage [de]

     

  • Pharmaceutical Display Collection

    FB 12: Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy
    Institute for Pharmaceutical Biology and Phytochemistry

    After 2015, the collection was significantly decimated by mold and water damage, so it is obsolete for teaching. The remains were stored. There are currently no plans to rebuild the collection.

  • Literary Western Collection

    FB 9: Faculty of Philology
    English Department

    Temporary surrendered

  • Dental Medicinal Collection

    formerly
    FB 5: Faculty of Medicine
    Clinic for Dentistry

    Destroyed durcing World War II.