Senckenberg Natural History Museum

About

Beneath a lavish ceiling, the moment visitors step into an exhibition hall set against a blue backdrop, they feel the rich scent of nature and a quiet grandeur. Massive dinosaur bones fill the floor, and footsteps that lightly pass over them come to a sudden stop. Children's eyes sparkle with excitement, and what shines within is not merely fossils, but relics of a long span of time that recorded the world. Taxidermied birds hang from trees throughout the exhibition space, unfolding both the freedom of flight and the beauty of stillness at once. Now and then, the shadow of a large fossil passes by. That shadow gives the feeling of crossing a wall that reaches back through time.