The Naturalis Biodiversity Centre in Leiden has won the 2021 European Museum of the Year award.
The jury calling it a “very resourceful museum with beautiful exhibitions and a multitude of public services and events.”
The museum was praised for its research record and diverse collections focusing on topics with universal appeal, engaging visitors in a compelling way and inviting everyone to think about and connect with the world around them, considering how they can help protect the earth’s beauty and biodiversity.
The museum is all about seeing, doing and experiencing. In different museum halls, the visitor discovered the early live on earth, the Netherlands in the Ice age and the primal forces of our earth. Also the visitor is introduced to the surprising lines of plants and animals, they face an African elephant and they meet the T. rex Trix. In the LiveScience hall they experience the work of an researcher and collection manager. Not because of an exhibition, but by really watching the scientists in everything they do. Anyone with a nature question is welcome at Naturalis and receives an answer from an expert.
Since 2019, Naturalis has been shining in a brand new museum. Bruns was responsible for the development, engineering and realization of four exhibition halls: The Earth, The Temptation, The Ice Age and LiveScience. We as Bruns think it’s great to hear that the museum is now internationally recognized by this award. Congratulations!
Publications:
https://www.naturalis.nl/over-ons/media/persberichten/naturalis-trotse-winnaar-van-european-museum-of-year-award-2021
https://www.europeanforum.museum/en/emya-twenty-and-twentyone/emya-twentyone/naturalis/