Sachs, S. & Keiter, M. (2019) Behind the Scenes at the Museum – Naturkunde-Museum Bielefeld, Germany. The Palaeontology Newsletter 102: 27-31.
—The Naturkunde-Museum Bielefeld is a municipal natural history museum with a long history. Initially the natural history collections were part of the Museum der Stadt Bielefeld (Museum of the city of Bielefeld), established on 3rd October 1906, that encompassed a history and a nature department. These departments were separated and formed independent museums in 1930 (Keiter and Sachs 2018). The Natural History Museum moved into the Kaselowsky villa where it remained until World War II when the collections were moved to rural locations in order to protect them from Allied bombings. After the war, no permanent home could be found for almost 20 years (from 1946 to 1964). During this time, the collection, neglected and distributed among several attics, suffered heavily. A large number of specimens was lost.
