Ausstellungen

Haha, burdock and devil’s claw get stuck to my giant shoes. Why? The conspicuous capsules of Proboscidea louisianica travel in animal cabs to disperse their seeds over long distances. The flowers of the plant are extremely tasty for bees and bumblebees, the fruits are initially edible and later lignify into the distinctive devil’s claw shape. […]

Enjoy the moment, sip by sip. About 150 years ago, coffee cultivation in Sri Lanka came to an end – a rust fungus was to blame. At that time, coffee was the national drink of the British. And the then British crown colony of Ceylon – today’s Sri Lanka – was one of the most […]

Oh, so many colorful eggs, I’ve got my paws full. So many different birds, so many different eggs. Galliformes probably lay the most eggs. The largest, however, comes from the ostrich. The emu’s egg is also quite large and sturdy. After all, the shell has to withstand the rather heavy male that incubates the dark […]

Oh là là, which feathers shall I wear today? There’s so much choice. Bird feathers are fascinating structures that fulfill numerous functions: They protect, insulate and enable flight by directing the flow of air. Each feather is made of keratin and grows out of the feather sac. There are different types: Contour feathers for body […]

Hocus pocus, by my witch’s bolete! What on earth is that? Which mushrooms can you pick and eat? Beginners are well advised to concentrate on boletes first, as there are no deadly poisonous species among them. The only poisonous one, the Satan‘s bolete, is fairly easy to distinguish from the other edible species. Boletes are […]

Arr, fins up. Hand over those shiny stones. They’re going in my treasure chest. Shimmers beautifully and comes in all kinds of colours – sea glass. But, the pretty stones from the sea are not a natural product. What nature washes up at our feet is actually rubbish. Over many years, old glass and fragments […]

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all? The age of the dinosaurs spanned an impressive 200 million years. During this enormous period of time, countless species populated the earth one after the other and then disappeared again. We have compiled six of them here. But did they ever really meet? Tyrannosaurus […]

For today, I am a bat. Quite handy, I hear much better. And I can even fly. Bats are the only flying mammals and amazing acrobats in the dark. They use echolocation to find their way around at night: By emitting high-frequency sounds, they can detect the echoes of objects, such as insects, and thus […]

+++The Bionicum has been open every day from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm since 1 March, even though the work to renovate the centre piece has not yet been completed. Educational institutions and interested parties can still visit the interactive exhibition on bionics as usual.+++ Almost finished! The new exhibition area’s main attraction is the […]

+++ Since 1 March, the Bionicum is open again daily from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm following the renovation phase. Even though the renovation work on the so-called centre island has not yet been fully completed, educational institutions and interested parties can visit the interactive exhibition on bionics as usual. Done – almost! The centrepiece […]