Museum Koenig Bonn

Museum Koenig

Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig
Established	13 May 1934
Location	Adenauerallee 160 Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Type	Natural history
Visitors	123,000 (2005)[1]
Director	Bernhard Misof
Public transit access	16 63 66 67 68 Museum Koenig
Website	bonn.leibniz-lib.de/en

The Museum Koenig Bonn, formerly Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig (German: Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, abbreviated ZFMK), is a natural history museum and zoological research institution in Bonn, Germany. The museum is named after Alexander Koenig, who donated his collection of specimens to the institution. The museum was opened in 1934 and forms, since 2001, the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, abbreviated LIB, together with the Museum of Nature Hamburg. The LIB is affiliated with the Leibniz Association.

On 1 September 1948 the museum saw the opening of the Parlamentarischer Rat, the organ to create the German constitution. The actual proceedings happened in the nearby Pädagogische Akademie, the later Bundeshaus.