Biodiversity Collections

BBIB encompasses world-class biodiversity collections: The Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin (BGBM) at the Freie Universität is the third largest botanical research collection worldwide and the biggest in Germany. The Museum für Naturkunde (MfN) is one of the top five natural history museums in the world with the largest collection of its kind in Germany.These two venues, together with the Botanischer Garten Potsdam, attract about 1 million visitors annually, a unique platform within Germany to effectively communicate the excitement about the diversity of organisms and their adaptations, the origins and value of biodiversity and its protection to the general public.