The Natural History Museum Karlsruhe is home to several million objects. The exhibition presents 32 curated objects and series of objects, most of which are not usually accessible to the public. Examples include fossilised teeth from the largest shark species that ever lived; an 18th-century gold-eye lichen; the striking taxidermied figure of Tristan the elephant seal; fossilised lightning; and the world’s oldest minerals. In these unusual collections, objects tell us surprising and exciting stories about themselves – and about what they mean for us.
The exhibition is accessible to all visitors thanks to its barrier-free architecture as well as its films and interactive stations, models and 3D graphics for hands-on exploration, audio descriptions, and texts in Braille and simplified German.