Visitor info

The Natural History Museum at Pockelsstraße has the following hours:

• Tue–Sun from 9am to 5pm
• Wed from 9am to 7pm
• Mon closed

The paläon Research Museum in Schöningen has the following hours:

• March to October: Tue–Sun from 10am to 5pm
• November to February: Wed–Sun from 11am to 5pm

Admission is free for children under the age of 6, all study groups (school or kindergarten classes, for every 5 children a supervisor is also free of charge), caregivers accompanying visitors with a disability, members of our booster club, as well as members of ICOM, Deutscher Museumsbund, the Museumsverband Niedersachsen und Bremen e.V. and holders of the MuseumsCard Braunschweig (1st visit).

Reduced fares are applicable to school and university students, apprentices, the unemployed, federal volunteers (Bundesfreiwilligendienstleistende) as well as holders of a severely handicapped pass. Groups of 10 or more people also pay the reduced admission (with or without guided tours).

In addition, holders of the following passes are applicable for reduced admission:

• Braunschweig-Pass
• GEOCard
• Volunteer Pass Niedersachsen
• Volunteer Pass Freiwilligenagentur when accompanying a refugee
• MuseumsCard Braunschweig (2nd visit onwards)

Please note:
Entry fees for special exhibitions may deviate from the above mentioned fees or regulations.

Family pass I (1 adult + up to 3 children): 13,00 €
Family pass II (2 adults + up to 3 children): 18,00 €

Annual pass Staatliches Naturhistorisches Museum: 30,00 €
Annual family pass I (1 adult + up to 3 children): 60,00 €
Annual family pass II (2 adults + up to 3 children): 75,00 €

Annual pass 3Landesmuseen Braunschweig: 60,00 €

With your admission ticket for the Staatliches Naturhistorisches Museum or the paläon Research Museum, you receive free admission to the other museum for 3 months from the date of purchase.

The Staatliche Naturhistorische Museum and the paläon Research Museum are open on the following holidays:

• Good Friday
• Easter Sunday
• Easter Monday
• Whitsunday
• German Unity Day (October 3)
• Reformation Day (October 31)
• Boxing Day (December 26)

The museums are closed on the following holidays:

• New Year's Day (January 1)
• Labor Day (May 1)
• Ascension Day
• Whit Monday
• Christmas Eve (December 24)
• Christmas Day (December 25)
• New Year's Eve (December 31)

The Staatliche Naturhistorisches Museum is accessible. The entry way to the exhibitions halls at Pockelsstrasse 10 is step-free and the door can be opened by a button. All floors are accessible by elevator.

Service dogs are permitted (on presentation of an ID card at the reception desk in the entrance hall).

Unless otherwise signposted, eating and drinking is not permitted in the exhibition rooms. However, you may use uur small reading café (1st floor) and the picnic room on the ground floor. The consumption of hot food is not permitted in these areas in order to avoid unpleasant odours.

Taking photographs without flash, tripod or selfie-stick in the exhibtions of the Naturhistorisches Museum is generally permitted.

For security reasons, visitors are not allowed to take umbrellas and bags into the exhibition rooms.

Please leave your coats and bags in the lockers on the ground floor and in the basement where we also provide stands for your umbrellas. Due to the limited space in the entrance area, we would like to ask you to leave larger handcarts and bicycle trailers at the bicycle racks in front of the museum. Due to space constraints, it is not possible to take them with you.

Free WiFi is provided throughout your visit.

WiFi Access:
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For further information contact our colleagues at the reception desk.