Archduke Johann’s natural science collections are the historic core of our museum, and in the 19th century the Joanneum was the scene of natural scientific discoveries of global importance.

From 2013, visitors to our museum can explore these and other discoveries in greater depth in the completely new Natural History Museum in the Joanneum Quarter, where the departments biosciences and geosciences will be open to the public.

The new Natural History Studies Centre offers ideal technical conditions for the preservation and exploration of our natural sciences collections. In the run-up to the opening of the Natural History Museum in 2013, a programme of excursions and rambles plus an open day allows fascinating glimpses of the work the departments biosciences and geosciences do in scientifically recording indigenous nature.