page_title: Museum Koenig
section_title: Exhibitions
hierarchical_section_title: Museum Koenig / Exhibitions
caption_attribution_description: Leonerasaurus taquetrensis
context_page_description: The Alexander Koenig Research Museum is a natural history museum and zoological research institution in Bonn, Germany. The museum is named after Alexander Koenig, who donated his collection of specimens to the institution. The museum was opened in 1934 and is affiliated with the Leibniz Association.
  On September 1, 1948, the museum saw the opening of the Parlamentarischer Rat, the organ to create the German constitution. The actual proceedings happened in the nearby Pädagogische Akademie, the later Bundeshaus.
context_section_description: The museum defines its mission as "researching and explaining the diversity of species of Earth". The main exhibition is titled "Unser blauer Planet - Leben im Netzwerk" (Our blue planet - living in a network). It shows complex ecological systems through dioramas of the African Savannah, a tropical rain forests, the polar regions, deserts and Central Europe.
  Aside from the permanent exhibition the museum houses special exhibitions regularly.
caption: Restored skeleton of Leonerasaurus, photographed at the Museum Koenig during the stay of the special exhibition "DINOSAURIER - Giganten Argentiniens" in 2009
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