Hannah Kressig and Sabrina Schnurrenberger give guided tours of the collection to show which great ape specimens the Naturmuseum Winterthur has and tell you more about their origins and history.

The motto of this year's International Museum Day is "Museums, Education and Research". The Naturmuseum Winterthur is presenting a current research project on the great ape specimens in the zoological collection.

Where did the material for these specimens come from? Under what circumstances did it come to Switzerland, and specifically to Winterthur? And what stages in Europe did the objects travel through until they arrived in the current collection room, deep below the Banana City Hotel?

The International Museum Day is intended to bring the objects out of their current final destination and make them accessible to the general public.

Hannah Kressig, Master's student in History and Philosophy of Knowledge at ETH Zurich, and Sabrina Schnurrenberger, Curator of Biology at the Naturmuseum Winterthur, will be giving guided tours of the collection to show which great ape specimens the Naturmuseum Winterthur owns and will be giving a talk about their origins and history.

Program:
11.00 a.m.: Guided tour of the zoological collection, meeting point foyer of the museum building
14.00: Lecture, reading room
15.00: Guided tour of the zoological collection, meeting point foyer museum building


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