About the BIOTOPIA Lab
As an interim platform, the BIOTOPIA Lab offers a taste of BIOTOPIA, its vision and values. It is a dynamic exhibition space, an event platform and an experimental workshop all at the interface of science, art, design and culture. At the same time, the BIOTOPIA Lab offers an insight into the development process of the new museum.
With workshops, raised garden beds, an experimental space, changing mystery objects and special exhibitions as well as interdisciplinary events, it arouses curiosity about the topics of BIOTOPIA and invites people to engage with the current status of project.
Find out more about our current program and get a look behind the scenes of the BIOTOPIA Lab, be sure to follow our social media channels.
More information about our opening hours, contact options, how to get to us and how to book school class programs can be found here:
You can enter the BIOTOPIA Lab via the main entrance of the Munich Botanic Garden. The visit of the Lab is free and included in the entrance fee of the Botanical Garden. Information about the entrance fees can be found on the Botanical Garden's page.
Friday: 1 p.m. - 4.30 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday: 10 a.m. - 4.30 p.m.
The drop in activities will initially only take place on weekends. During school vacations, and on holidays extended opening hours apply in some cases.
ARCHITEKTIERISCH
New pop-up exhibition in the BIOTOPIA Lab
2024, July 20 - 2025, April 30
What building plan do beavers follow? What can architects learn from orangutans and swallows? And how high would the building termites build if they were as tall as humans? The new pop-up exhibition in the BIOTOPIA Lab takes you into the world of building and design. Admire the buildings of humans and animals - and get active yourself at various hands-on stations: construct, design, experiment with all your senses and feel like a beaver.
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Design drawing of Konstantin Landuris studio - status 2017.
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This is the program area for activities related to nutrition.
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In this area there are demonstrations of interactive programs and courses.
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During the day there are work tables for group activities, in the evening this part can be converted into a function room.
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Here you get a foretaste of BIOTOPIA: With background information on the new building and insight into the construction progress, thematically changing pop-up exhibitions and the flight simulator "Birdly".
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This area serves as an informal meeting place for groups and individual visitors as well as a place for film screenings and discussions in small groups.
EXHIBITIONS, WORKSHOPS, EVENTS - AREAS AND PROGRAMS
Exhibition space with interactive installations and a workshop area with an experimental space comprise 350 square meters. The total area is designed for a maximum number of visitors of up to 99 people (under normal conditions without corona restrictions).
In the exhibition area, visitors can investigate curious mystery objects, interact withse an architectural model and media station to learn about the current state of the museum project, fly over Bavaria as a bird in a Virtual Reality flight simulator called Birdly or get inspired by our partners in the Bavarian Natural History Network by exploring their public offerings.
Copyrights: slideshow & animation: Interior design - Konstantin Landuris Studio
With our mystery objects you can search for clues online. We present you with objects that you probably don't know what they are. Seven clues provide information about the objects - but be careful: Only half of the clues are true! Will you find out what is a lie and what the mysterious objects are?
BIOTOPIA presents treasures from the Bavarian State Natural Science Collections (SNSB) in the form of exciting object stories with the mystery objects in the BIOTOPIA Lab. Each object is described in the solution video by an SNSB scientist.
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Dr. Auguste von Bayern, Vorstandsvorsitzende Förderkreis BIOTOPIA
„Das mit Hilfe des Förderkreises BIOTOPIA Naturkundemuseum Bayern e.V. zum Großteil durch unsere großzügige Unterstützerin, die BayWa Stiftung, ermöglichte BIOTOPIA Lab ist für uns ein wichtiger Schritt auf dem Weg zu BIOTOPIA. Damit ist ein erster Raum verfügbar, in dem man den „BIOTOPIA Spirit“ schon einmal erleben kann. BIOTOPIA kann hier seine wichtige Funktion als Bildungs- und Diskussionsforum für die so zukunftsentscheidenden „Life Science“ Themen, also Bio-, Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften und als Schnittstelle zwischen Wissenschaft, Gesellschaft, Politik und Wirtschaft mehr und mehr entfalten. Und wir haben hier endlich einen Ort wo man auf neutralem Boden und wissenschaftlich fundiert neue Nachhaltigkeitskonzepte, Klimaschutz, Gentechnik und Pandemien und die globale Biodiversitätskrise diskutieren, vor allem aber kreative Lösungsansätze erörtern und entwickeln kann.“ -
Maria Thon, Managing Dicector of the BayWa Foundation
„In the BIOTOPIA Lab young people get the chance to approach nature and science in an open-minded way. They receive fascinating impulses and can sharpen their senses at the same time. Especially the communication of knowledge about nutrition is very important to me. With the support of the BIOTOPIA Lab we as BayWa Foundation would like to contribute to the fact that numerous children can discover this world of experience and learning. " -
Tanja Seiner, designer and curator of Fungi for Future
„The variety of appearances and functions of fungi is incredibly large throughout the living world in nature as well as in human everyday life. It remains exciting for the future to see how much potential lies dormant in this still largely unexplored realm of organisms." -
Dr. Nina Möllers, Head of BIOTOPIA Lab
„The BIOTOPIA Lab is a place of experiences, discoveries and learning. Here we offer exciting formats for all ages – for school classes, families and the interested public – and develop new ones in cooperation with the visitors. The Lab also lets us dive into topics that are important to BIOTOPIA in the form of special exhibitions. We are happy to have a physical space where we can already get in contact with future BIOTOPIA visitors." -
Dr. Michael Apel, Director of Museum Mensch und Natur
„The BIOTOPIA Lab is the bridge between the Museum Mensch und Natur and the upcoming BIOTOPIA - Naturkundemuseum Bayern. Many of the popular workshop programs, for example on the topic of nutrition, are continued and further developed here, but also new exhibition elements and event formats are tested. Of course, it is not a replacement for the previous museum, but it is an important step on the way to a great new house, which will face the pressing questions of our time." -
Dr. Hubert Gruber, Director of the Archbishop's Maria-Ward-Gymnasium Nymphenburg
„Why wander far when good is so near?" This variation of Goethe's famous words applies in a very special way to our grammar school, which is very fortunate to have the BIOTOPIA Lab, a unique extracurricular place of learning, integrated into its lessons. This is all the more true because the LAB offers with workshop character not only represent an optimal supplement to the lessons in the biological-chemical subjects, but also fit perfectly with the scientific focus of interest of our girls' school." -
Konstantin Landuris, Architecture & Design BIOTOPIA Lab
„In close cooperation with the engineers and scientists of Biotopia we were able to realize a trend-setting concept for the Biotopia LAB architecture and exhibition. It was an outstanding task to create a futuristic hub that fascinates and amazes young and old. The changeable floor plan allows a wide range of usage scenarios in its open areas. It was an exciting process to develop a holistic design concept in which architecture and design flow smoothly into the exhibition object. Under futuristic acoustic panels made of grown mushroom mycelium you can find living caterpillars, virtual reality experiences and many mysterious objects from nature and biotechnology."
Get involved in BIOTOPIA - with a donation, membershipor project-related support. We look forward to growing a group of committed people to actively support BIOTOPIA throughout the development phase.
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