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Jena Phyletisches Museum (or Jena Phyletic Museum) is a museum in the German town of Jena. It was established by the scientist Ernst Haeckel, as an institute dedicated to explaining evolution to the public.
A journey back in time to the early days of the University of Jena. From 27 September 2024, scientists from Friedrich Schiller University Jena will be presenting excavation finds from the early days of the university in the City Museum, Kollegienhof and Jena City Church
- Fürstengraben 1, Jena, 07743
- 03641 401000
After the Second World War, it was known as the Prehistoric Museum of the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology, until 1968. The collection belongs to the Department of Prehistory and Early History of the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena.
The existing Optical Museum in Jena will be transformed into the German Optical Museum on the occasion of the 200th birthday of Carl Zeiss. To this end, the City of Jena, the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Carl Zeiss AG, the Ernst Abbe Foundation and the Carl Zeiss Foundation have established the German Optical Museum Foundation.
The University of Jena has once again become an internationally renowned centre of science. New success stories are written in research and teaching; and when browsing through the University’s history, one comes across the names of great scholars who worked in Jena.
The museum boasts extensive collections on city and university history. These include city and landscape views, portraits of professors, views and models of Jena buildings, exhibits on the Battle of 1806, and an art collection that spans from the Middle Ages to the present.
Among the collections which are open to the public are the Jena Phyletisches Museum, an institution which is unique in Europe for illustrating the history of evolution, the Ernst-Haeckel-Memorial Museum, the Mineralogical Collection which traces its roots back to Goethe and the second oldest Botanical Garden of Middle Europe.
