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Facts
Café
Serves warm dishes, sandwiches etc. Very child friendly
Shop
Posters, postcards, toys etc.
School services
Museum
The Zoological Museum is a part of the Natural History Museum
| National museum of Danish zoology
Mammoth, giant squids, wading birds and the world’s climates
At the Zoological Museum you can experience the richness of animal life, and you most likely to see species that you have never seen or dreamed of before. The Exhibition Denmark’s Prehistoric Animal World is a journey through time spanning more than 20.000 years – from the last ice age’s mammoth steppes to the present day steppes cultured by man. The animals at times appear chillingly lifelike in reconstructions of their past environments. You can e.g. see a giant woolly haired mammoth in lifelike size among dripping blocks of ice. At the Ocean hall, at the Museum’s top floor, you can experience the gigantic whale skeletons from the Greenland whale, sperm whale and terrifying sharks, giant squid and other creatures from life in the ocean. Throughout the exhibition you hear the different sounds of animals, which along with the dimmed light in some areas, creates a lifelike feeling of being deep under the ocean’s surface. In the exhibition From Pole to Pole you travel through the world’s climatic zones and experience how inventive and ingenious the different species of animals have adapted to different climates, such as ice, tundra and coniferous forest.
A visit to the Zoological Museum is an obvious place to go for an outing for families with children of all ages. The Museum offers new experiences – not least due to the thrill the cute, scary and disgusting animals can give children of all ages. For children in school the Museum has assignment sheets (in Danish) that you take with you around the exhibits, and in a fun way learn more about animals. The Museum shop offers fun things for all age groups. For the young audience the shop has excellent animal posters, postcards and animal figures for the nursery.
Apart from the exhibitions on the 5th and 6th floor, the Museum houses large collections of zoological material, skeletons and stuffed animals used for research at the University of Copenhagen, and which are usually not available to the public. | |