The
Museum für Naturkunde (
MfN), occasionally called the
Naturkundemuseum or
Humboldt-Museum for short, (officially:
Museum für Naturkunde – Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung), is a
natural history museum in
Berlin,
Germany. The museum houses more than 30 million zoological, paleontological, and mineralogical specimens, including more than ten thousand
type specimens. It is famous for two spectacular exhibits: the largest mounted
dinosaur in the world, and an exquisitely preserved specimen of the earliest known
bird,
Archaeopteryx.