1. Henning Scholz Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

2. Mission & Vision Mission: To understand the Earth and its life, in dialog with its people. Vision: As a research museum of excellence and an innovative communicator, we help to shape the scientific and public debate on the future of our planet – worldwide.

3. Collections ~30 mio. specimens >650 scientific visitors per year Redeveloped East Wing now state-of-the-art storage facility for wet collections Innovations in mass digitisation of insect boxes 74% of MfN type specimens digitally registered 1/3 of all specimen data in GBIF-D are from MfN Coordinator/secretariat of Collection Policy Board (CPB)

4. Library Important reference library for zoology in German speaking countries Additional collections in palaeontology, minerology 369,000 items, including maps and separates Subscribes 834 printed and 4,124 online journals Library exchange with >600 institutions Two Colour-Book-Scanners, Cruse Scanner

5. Research SP1: Discovery of Biodiversity SP2: Genome – Organism – Environment SP3: Diversity Dynamics SP4: Impacts, Meteorites, and Geological Processes SP5: Collection Development SP6: Science Communication and History of Science Integrated research museum: collection-based research, science-based communication

6. Exhibitions Paradigm change in planning and designing exhibitions – one of four trendsetting NHM worldwide

7. International Collaboration / Projects Leadership of BHL-Europe, EU-BON WP lead EDIT, OpenUp!, SYNTHESYS Chair of CETAF Key role in NeFo BIOTA and ICDP; Geo.X, Aquanet, MEMIN, GENART Member of Consortium of Scientific Partners of CBD

8. Role in pro-iBiosphere Leader of Task 3.3: Semantic integration of biodiversity literature (Henning Scholz)