Contact and Locations

Institute for Zoology and Evolutionary Research

Erbertstr. 1
07743 Jena Google Maps site planExternal link

Office hours:
Due to the pandemic, please give me a call to make an appointment.

Postal address:
Institute for Zoology and Evolutionary Research
with Phyletischem Museum, Ernst-Haeckel-Haus and Biodidactics
Erbertstraße 1
07743 Jena

Institutsdirektorium

Professorship Dr. Andreas Hejnol
Erbertstraße 1
07743 Jena

Telefon:+49 3641-9-49141
Fax:+49 3641-9-49142
E-Mail:andreas.hejnol@uni-jena.de

Secretary:

Sandra Rüdiger

Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Institute of Zoology and Evolutionary Research incl. 
Phyletic Museum, Ernst-Haeckel-Haus and Bioldidactics
Erbertstraße 1
07743 Jena

Tel. 03641/ 94 91 40
Fax 03641 94 91 42
sandra.ruediger@uni-jena.de

Phyletisches Museum

Erbertstraße 1, 07743 Jena

The Museum building is under special monument protection. The museum was built in 1908, the age of Art Noveau, and since 2008 the words "Ontogenie" and "Phylogenie", which were characterized by Ernst Haeckel during his work in Jena, are memorialized in the gable field above the entrance.

The Phyletic Museum is primarily dedicated to evolution and development of species, "phylogenesis" - this term, “Stammesgeschichte” in German, was coined by its founder Ernst Haeckel. On July 30, 1908, Haeckel handed over the building to the University of Jena. Today the museum is a part of the Institute of Zoology and Evolutionary Research. The house is dedicated to the classic areas of a natural history research: collecting, preserving, researching, exhibiting, and conveying. The entire animal kingdom is shown in the exhibition, from sponges to jellyfish and lobsters to tigers and cassowaries. There are also special themed halls about 'Evolution' and 'Incarnation' as well as ongoing current special exhibitions. The research focus of the museum lies in the development and evolutionary history, and biodiversity of insects.

Phyletisches Museum

Vor dem Neutor 1
07743 Jena Google Maps site planExternal link

Opening hours:
Open Tuesday till Sunday.
Monday closed

Opening hours from Tuesday till Friday: between 9am and 1pm and 2pm and 5pm.

Opening hours on Saturday, Sunday and public holiday: between 10am and 4pm

Closed on Chirstmas holiday (24.12. and 25.12) and new yaers eve (31.12. and 01.01.) and also if public holiday is on monday.

Ernst Haeckel Haus

The Ernst-Haeckel-Haus of the Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena is one of the oldest institutes pertaining to the history of natural science in Germany; second only to the Karl-Sudhoff-Institute in Leipzig (1905/06). Both institutions owe their establishment to private trusts.

In Leipzig funds provided by the endowment capital of Viennese medical historian Theodor Puschmann (1844-1899) were bequeathed to the Faculty of Medicine in 1904 to establish an associate professorship for the history of medicine in addition to a university institute for the history of medicine and natural sciences. Whereas the establishment of an institute and the institutional embedding of the history of natural sciences as a university discipline turned out to be more difficult in Jena.

Ernst Haeckel Haus

Kahlaische Str. 1
07745 Jena

Opening hours:
The Ernst-Haeckel-Haus is under construction till 2021.