The 90-minute guided tour ‘Queering Nature’ invites you to discover natural history from a new perspective. It focuses on questions of gender, sexuality and the notions that science and society have developed about nature.
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Museum für Naturkunde
To what extent is nature sexualised? How do researchers determine the sex of a dinosaur? What does colonialism have to do with botany and the sex of plants? Whose knowledge do we present in the Natural History Museum – and what might remain hidden in the process?
Using exhibits such as the hippopotamus, polar bear and Tyrannosaurus rex, the tour explores, amongst other things, how researchers determine the sex of extinct animals, how plants are categorised in botany, and what role colonial and societal notions play in this. At the same time, it sheds light on what knowledge is made visible in natural history collections – and which stories often remain untold.
Guided tour: Queering Nature
- Venue: Natural History Museum Berlin, Invalidenstr. 43 · 10115 Berlin
- Language: English
- Time: 6.00–7.30 pm
- Cost: 15 euros / 12 euros (cash, payable on the door)
Booking:
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17 December: HERE
7 January: HERE
