Bundner Naturmuseum

The Bundner Naturmuseum is dedicated to the plant life and fauna, ecology, geology and minerals of Graubünden. Special exhibitions and publications on present day topics increase the exciting permanent exhibitions. Upon agreement, the big medical document and have a look at collections of flora, animals, fossils, minerals and rocks may be viewed.

The Bundner Naturmuseum sees itself as an data middle for herbal technology and as a place of ecological cognizance. The collections of the Bundner Naturmuseum date returned to the give up of the 18th and the beginning of the nineteenth century. At that time, people from the Bundner Kantonsschule and the Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Graubunden started to take over gadgets and collections from private collections and to acquire them themselves.

They built inside the following decades a wealthy Naturalienkabinett. In 1872 , the cantonal "Bundner Museum fur Wissenschaft und Kunst" was based in Buol's residence, trendy Ratische Museum. However, it soon have become hard to residence all the items and collections there.