GGBN Conference 2016/Field Trips
Note: All field trips are shared events and organized together with SPNHC. If you want to register for GGBN you can book the field trips during registration.
June 19-20
Senckenberg, Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum Frankfurt/Main and Messel Research Station
With about 37 million objects, the Senckenberg network constitutes the biggest natural history collection in Germany. The network partners are distributed over whole Germany with comprehensive collections in the natural history museums in Dresden, Görlitz and Frankfurt and the German Entomological Institute in Müncheberg and additional research institutions focusing e.g. on climate change and marine science. A well-known member of the Senckenberg community is the Messel Pit (Grube Messel). It was a bituminous shale mine and became almost a landfill but strong local resistance fortunately stopped these plans at the end. In 1995 it was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site because of the abundance of extraordinary (Eocene) fossils, e.g. Darwinius masillae. Until today, significant scientific discoveries are still being made.
The two-day field trip offers a unique chance to get a deep insight in both, the Senckenberg headquarter in Frankfurt with its wonderful exhibitions and valuable collections and the famous Messel Pit. Starting on Sunday morning at the Andel’s hotel we will go by train to Frankfurt where the colleagues from the Senckenberg Naturmuseum will take us on a tour through the exhibition and collections (with focus on paleontological collections). At the end of this first exciting day, a bus will bring us to our hotel, the Jagdschloss Kranichstein. It is situated just a few minutes from the Messel Pit in Darmstadt. Monday morning will be spent on an excursion at the Messel Pit World Heritage Site. We will have the chance to experience live excavation and preparation activities and will have look at the visitors’ center. After lunch a bus shuttle will bring us to the train station to get back to Berlin. To make sure that you can fully relax and enjoy the whole field trip from start to end, we will take of everything and arranged an all-inclusive-package.
This package includes all costs, especially for transportation, meals, hotel and entrances.
| Time: | June 19 | Start: 7:15 AM |
| to June 20 | End: 7:30 PM |
Fee: 298 €
Bus pick up location: Andel’s Hotel Lobby
