Museums, Collections and Gardens of Münster University

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].

• Anatomical Collection

  

  FB 05 - Faculty of Medicine
  Prosektur of the Institute für Anatomy

  Head of the Institute: Univ. Prof.Dr. Markus Missler
  Collection manager: Dr. Birte Barbian

  Homepage [de]

• Archaeological Museum

  

  FB08 - Faculty of History and Philosophy
  Institute for Classical Archaeology and Christian Archaeology

  Director: Prof. Dr. Achim Lichtenberger

  Custodian: Dr. Torben Schreiber

  Homepage [de]

• Medicinal Plant Garden

  

  FB 12 - Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy
  Institute for Pharmaceutical Biology and Phytochemistry

  Head of collections: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hensel

  Homepage [de]

• Bakelit-Collection

  

  Maintained by the Central Custodian [en]

   

• Bible Museum

  

  FB 1 - Faculty of Protestant Theology
  Institute for New Testament Textual Research

  Head of Collections: Prof. Dr. Holger Strutwolf

  Custodian: Dr. Jan Graefe

  Homepage [de]

• Biblical-Archaeological Collection

  

  FB 2 - Faculty of Catholic Theology
  Institute for contemporary history and religious hisory of the Old Testament

  Head of collections: Prof. Dr. Johannes Schnocks

   

• Botanical Garden

  

  FB 13: Faculty of Biology
  Institute for evolution and biodiversity

  Director: Prof. Dr. Kai Müller

  Head of collections: N.N.

  Homepage [de]

• Lanternslide-Collection on "Hausforschung"

  FB 8: Faculty of History and Philosophy
  Institute for cultural anthropology / European Ethnology

  Head of collections: Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Timm [de]

• Studygarden of the Centre for the Didactics of Biology

  

  FB 13: Faculty of Biology
  Centre for the Didactics of Biology

  Custodian: N.N.

  Homepage [de]

• Geological Palaeontological Collection

  

  FB 14: Faculty of Geosciences
  Institute for Geology and Palaeontology

  Custodian: Dr. Steffen Trümper

  Homepage [de]

• Geomuseum

  FB 14: Faculty of Geosciences

  Director: Prof. Dr. Harald Strauß

  Homepage [de]

• Historical Pianoforte Collection Beetz

  

  FB 15: University of Music

  Head of collections: Prof. Ulrich Beetz

  Homepage

• Art Collections of the University

  

  Central Custorian

  Custodian: Dr. Eckhard Kluth

  Homepage

• Studycollection of the Department for Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology

  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

  Homepage [de]

• Studycollection of the Centre for the Didactics of Biology

  

  FB 13: Faculty of Biology
  Centre for the Didactics of Biology

  Head of collections: Prof. Dr. Marcus Hammann

• Medical Historic Collection Rothschuh

  

  FB 5: Faculty of Medicine
  Institute for Medical Ethics, History and Theory

  Head of collections: Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Hofer [de]

• Meteorites Collections

  

  FB 14: Faculty of Geosciences
  Institute for Planetology

  Head of collections: Prof. Dr. Addi Bischoff

• Mineralogical-Petrographical Collection

  

  FB 14: Faculty of Geosciences
  Institute for Mineralogy

  Custodian: Dr. Christian Vollmer

  Homepage [de]

• Collection of Montessori Materials

  

  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

• Collection of Medical Moulds

  

  FB 5: Faculty of Medicine
  Clinic for Dermatology

  Head of Collections: Prof. Dr. Sonja Ständer

  Homepage [de]

• Collection of Antique Numismatics

  

  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

  Kuratorin: Dr. Katharina Martin

  Homepage [de]

• Pathological Collection

  FB 5: Faculty of Medicine
  Gerhard-Domagk-Institute for Pathologie

  Department Head: Prof. Dr. med Eva Wardelmann

  Custodian: Prof. em. Dr. Klaus-Michael Müller

• Pop-Archive

  FB 9: Faculty of Philology
  German Department

  Head of Collections: Prof. Dr. Moritz Baßler

  Homepage [de]

• Collection of the Seminar for Religious Studies

  

  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.

• Holl Collection

  FB 9: Faculty of Philology
  Institute for Arabistic and  für Arabistik und Islamic Studies

  Custodian: Dr. Monika Springberg-Hinsen

• Collection of the Institute for Comperative History of Towns

  FB 8: Faculty of History and Philosophy
  Institute for Comperative History of Towns

  Custodian: Ria Hänisch

  Homepage [de]

• Remy Collection

  

  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

  Homepage [de]

• Special Collections of the University Archive

  University Archive

  Head of Department: Dr. Sabine Happ

  Homepage [de]

• Special Collections of the University and State Library

  Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek

  Director: Dr. Beate Tröger

  Department 3: Historical Collections
  Department Head: Dr. Henning Dreyling

  Homepage [de]

• Sport-Historical Movies-Collection

  

  Zentrale Kustodie

  formerly FB 7: Faculty of Psychology/Sport and Exercise Sciences
  Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences

• Wolf-Dietrich-Collection

  FB 8: Faculty of History and Philosophy
  Institute for Musicology

  Head of Collections: Prof. Dr. Ralf Jäger

   

   

   

University Collections which have been surrendered or destroyed, are lost or obscure

• Embryological Collection Kuhn

  

  formerly: FB 05 - Faculty of Medicine
  formerly: Prosektur of the Institute für Anatomy

  Head of Collections: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Knabe

• Ethnological Studycollection Kröger

  formerly
  FB 8: Faculty of History and Philosophy
  Institute for Ethnology

  Surrendered to the "Forum der Völker", Werl

• Collection of Apparatus for Experimental Gestalt Psychologie

  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

• Herbarium of Münster University (MSUN)

  formerly?
  FB 13: Faculty of Biology
  Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity

  Obscure

• "Kunstkabinett" (Studycollection for Art History)

  formerly
  FB 8: Faculty of History and Philosophy
  Institute for Art History

  Destroyed during World War II.

• Studycollections for Plant Models

  formerly
  FB 13: Faculty of Biology
  former Botanical Institute

  Surrendered to the LWL-Museum for Natural History, Münster

   

• Zoological Studycollection

  formerly?
  Fachbereich 13 - Biologie
  Institut für Allgemeine Zoologie

  Obscure

• Educational Charts Collections of the former Institute for Zoology and Genetics

  formerly?
  FB 13: Faculty of Biology
  Institute for Zoology

  Obscure

• Museum for the History of Leprosy (Gesllschaft für Leprakunde e.V.)

  Not associated with Münster University

  Homepage [de]

   

• Pharmaceutical Display Collection

  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.

• Literary Western Collection

  FB 9: Faculty of Philology
  English Department

  Temporary surrendered

• Dental Medicinal Collection

  formerly
  FB 5: Faculty of Medicine
  Clinic for Dentistry

  Destroyed durcing World War II.