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Museum at the Robert Koch Institute

Opening hours
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the museum will be temporarily closed.
Monday to Saturday 10am to 5pm

Admission and guided tours
Free admission
Free guided tours for groups of at least eight persons are possible following registration.
Registration: e-mail

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Storks, bats and bearded dragons can spread pathogens which are also dangerous for humans. In the background an incubator from Robert Koch’s times and a full-body protection suit from RKI’s new BSL-4 laboratory. Storks, bats and bearded dragons can spread pathogens which are also dangerous for humans. In the background an incubator from Robert Koch’s times and a full-body protection suit from RKI’s new BSL-4 laboratory. Source: RKI

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Storks, bats and bearded dragons can spread pathogens which are also dangerous for humans. In the background an incubator from Robert Koch’s times and a full-body protection suit from RKI’s new BSL-4 laboratory.
The new exhibition shows – among other things - the research by RKI on risk and protection factors concerning the health of the population. In the upper left area, you see posters of several awareness campaigns across the globe.
Infection protection in Robert Koch’s day and today. The table explains – amongst other things – how a vaccination recommendation by the Standing Committee of Vaccination (STIKO) comes into being.
The new wall-sized display cases are put together.
In the course of the construction works in 2017, RKI's museum was considerably enlarged and extended; walls were torn down.
Robert Koch’s mausoleum is also open to the public.
The RKI museum in 2016. Since the 1950s, there have only been minor changes.
In 1960, the museum was also used as conference room.
The Robert Koch Institute has had a museum of its own for more than 100 years; created shortly after Robert Koch’s entombment in 1910 and displaying exclusive exhibits relating to Robert Koch’s life and work.

Address
Robert Koch-Institut
Headquarters
Nordufer 20
13353 Berlin-Wedding
Directions: http://www.rki.de/EN/Content/Institute/Locations/Roadmap/Roadmap_Nordufer.html

Contact
e-mail

The Museum has disabled access.
No parking facilities; public transportation is recommended.

A brief history of the Museum
The first exhibition at the Robert Koch Institute was designed for the entombment of Robert Koch on 4 December 1910 in the anteroom of the Mausoleum. After the completion of the annex, a larger museum was installed on the ground floor of the latter in 1913. As a result of the conversion and enlargement of the insitute after the Second World War, another museum was created in the newly constructed anterior building of the main building, which was inaugurated on the occasion of the 50th death anniversary of Robert Koch (1960) at the current site. After over 50 years, the museum was expanded in 2017 and the exhibition re-designed. The current exhibition shows selected exhibits from Robert Koch's estate. The exhibition presents themes based on the current working environment of the Institute across 180 m². It tells the exciting story of the transformation of the scientific view of the world of health and disease, and the role played by the ideas and discoveries of Robert Koch and his students, which are in part still applied in today’s research.

Further information

Date: 13.03.2020

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