Research, teaching and transfer at Münster University do not only take place in lecture halls, libraries or laboratories. Many institutes have scientific teaching and research collections, some of international standing. Three university museums are open to the public, as are the botanical garden and the medicinal plant garden.
For more information on the scientific collections at Münster University listed below please check here [de].
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
Object of study, leisure zone and protected space for endangered flora
Schlossgarten 5 | 48149 Münster
Tel: +49 251 83-23827, Fax: +49 251 83-23800
botanischer.garten@uni-muenster.de
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
Research, teaching, and display collection of earth sciences.
Pferdegasse 3 | 48143 Münster
Tel: +49 251 83-33900
geomuseum@uni-muenster.de
FB 05 - Faculty of Medicine
Prosektur of the Institute für Anatomy
Head of Collections: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Knabe
FB08 - Faculty of History and Philosophy
Institute for Classical Archaeology and Christian Archaeology
Director: Prof. Dr. Achim Lichtenberger
Custodian: Dr. H.-Helge Nieswandt
FB 12 - Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy
Institute for Pharmaceutical Biology and Phytochemistry
Head of collections: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hensel
Maintained by the Central Custodian [en]
FB 1 - Faculty of Protestant Theology
Institute for New Testament Textual Research
Head of Collections: Prof. Dr. Holger Strutwolf
Custodian: Dr. Jan Graefe
FB 2 - Faculty of Catholic Theology
Institute for contemporary history and religious hisory of the Old Testament
Head of collections: Prof. Dr. Johannes Schnocks
FB 13: Faculty of Biology
Institute for evolution and biodiversity
Director: Prof. Dr. Kai Müller
Head of collections: Dr. Dennise Stefan Bauer
FB 8: Faculty of History and Philosophy
Institute for cultural anthropology / European Ethnology
Head of collections: Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Timm [de]
FB 05 - Faculty of Medicine
Prosektur of the Institute für Anatomy
Head of Collections: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Knabe
FB 13: Faculty of Biology
Centre for the Didactics of Biology
Custodian: N.N.
FB 14: Faculty of Geosciences
Institute for Geology and Palaeontology
Custodian: Dr. Steffen Trümper
FB 14: Faculty of Geosciences
Director: Prof. Dr. Harald Strauß
FB 15: University of Music
Head of collections: Prof. Ulrich Beetz
Central Custorian
Custodian: Dr. Eckhard Kluth
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
FB 13: Faculty of Biology
Centre for the Didactics of Biology
Head of collections: Prof. Dr. Marcus Hammann
FB 5: Faculty of Medicine
Institute for Medical Ethics, History and Theory
Head of collections: Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Hofer [de]
FB 14: Faculty of Geosciences
Institute for Planetology
Head of collections: Prof. Dr. Addi Bischoff
FB 14: Faculty of Geosciences
Institute for Mineralogy
Custodian: Dr. Christian Vollmer
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
FB 5: Faculty of Medicine
Clinic for Dermatology
Head of Collections: Prof. Dr. Sonja Ständer
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
FB 5: Faculty of Medicine
Gerhard-Domagk-Institute for Pathologie
Department Head: Prof. Dr. med Eva Wardelmann
Custodian: Prof. em. Dr. Klaus-Michael Müller
FB 9: Faculty of Philology
German Department
Head of Collections: Prof. Dr. Moritz Baßler
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
Collection management: Anja Lüpken M.A.
FB 9: Faculty of Philology
Institute for Arabistic and für Arabistik und Islamic Studies
Custodian: Dr. Monika Springberg-Hinsen
FB 8: Faculty of History and Philosophy
Institute for Comperative History of Towns
Custodian: Ria Hänisch
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
University Archive
Head of Department: Dr. Sabine Happ
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
Director: Dr. Beate Tröger
Department 3: Historical Collections
Department Head: Dr. Henning Dreyling
Zentrale Kustodie
formerly FB 7: Faculty of Psychology/Sport and Exercise Sciences
Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences
formerly
FB 8: Faculty of History and Philosophy
Institute for Ethnology
Surrendered to the "Forum der Völker", Werl
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
formerly?
FB 13: Faculty of Biology
Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity
Obscure
formerly
FB 8: Faculty of History and Philosophy
Institute for Art History
Destroyed during World War II.
formerly
FB 13: Faculty of Biology
former Botanical Institute
Surrendered to the LWL-Museum for Natural History, Münster
formerly?
Fachbereich 13 - Biologie
Institut für Allgemeine Zoologie
Obscure
formerly?
FB 13: Faculty of Biology
Institute for Zoology
Obscure
Not associated with Münster University
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.
FB 9: Faculty of Philology
English Department
Temporary surrendered
formerly
FB 5: Faculty of Medicine
Clinic for Dentistry
Destroyed durcing World War II.