Museums in Bonn - Museum Koenig, Beethoven House, Akademisches Kunstmuseum, Bonn Egyptian Museum, Arithmeum, Heimatmuseum Beuel (Paperback)

Chapters: Museum Koenig, Beethoven House, Akademisches Kunstmuseum, Bonn Egyptian Museum, Arithmeum, Heimatmuseum Beuel, Philatelic Archive in Bonn, Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, Haus Der Geschichte, Kunst- Und Ausstellungshalle Der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Deutsches Museum Bonn, Kunstmuseum Bonn, August-Macke-Haus, Bonn Women's Museum, Rheinisches Malermuseum. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 42. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Alexander Koenig Research Museum (German: Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig) 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 University of Bonn. The museum was founded by the private scholar Alexander Koenig (1858-1940) as a private institute for zoological research and public education. Alexander Koenig, who was born in 1858 as the son of the wealthy merchant Leopold Koenig, began to collect birds and mammals as a boy. He later studied zoology and received a doctorate in natural history in 1884. In the following years he organized and funded several expeditions to the Arctic and Africa and greatly expanded his private collection of specimens. The museum in 1962.After his father died in 1903, Alexander Koenig planned a natural history museum to present his private collection to the public. On September 3, 1912, the foundation stone to the new Museum Alexander Koenig was laid. After the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the uncompleted building was confiscated and used as a military hospital and later, until 1923, as barracks by the French occupying forces. Alexander Koenig, who had lost most of his fortune in the aftermath of the war, donated the museum and...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=114467