"The Andrea von Braun Foundation is dedicated to breaking down the boundaries between disciplines. Our basic principle is the mutual enrichment and fertilization of disciplines, which fosters the unexpected. In our opinion, BIOTOPIA accommodates this ideal in a special way. What happens in nature resonates with all areas of human existence and activity. Understanding these processes always requires knowledge of processes and phenomena beyond one's own field of activity. This knowledge needs forming and cultivating from a young age onwards. The Bavarian natural history museum can serve this objective invaluably."

"BIOTOPIA offers the precious opportunity to experience and discover knowledge about healthy eating and renewable energy. The support of educational projects in these areas is firmly established in the foundation's objectives. Children and adolescents especially need a place where they can experience for themselves how important it is to live in close communion with nature and thereby with healthy food. The BayWa Foundation gladly supports BIOTOPIA - to connect humans, knowledge and nature."

"I gladly support the Bavarian natural history museum as a founding patron, in order that we can use this favourable occasion to realise this enterprise whose relevance is central to current cultural and educational policies."

"It is our generation's task to rebalance the relationship between humans and earth. For that to happen, we need to become more aware of how the consequences of our activities correlate and of the enormous possibilities nature offers us. To this, BIOTOPIA provides fascinating insights for all age groups."

"Dealing thoughtfully with creation becomes more and more important. Especially in the light of sustainability, new knowledge has to gain currency. A natural history museum is the best way to raise the public's awareness for future tasks. If knowledge is imparted in an enjoyable way, it is absorbed with enthusiasm and creates conviction. Only people with conviction can authentically inspire others for their ideas. The natural history museum is the best way to do that."

"Now, after all, it was finally successfull to get a natural history museum for Bavaria off the ground, the architectural competition has been tendered, the Free State is behind the behind the project and the initiators, with Dr. Auguste von Bayern leading the way, have managed to take enough private donors and patrons on board. This museum is not only about the past, but also about current questions regarding the future of man in nature. "Technology imitates nature" the ancient Greeks said. By now, however, we live in a world in which technology surpasses and reconfigures nature in a great number of areas. It is therefore of particular importance to explore nature in a natural history museum, since nature itself changes continuously with the passage of time."

"The Schweisfurth family (my wife Dorothee and my children Karl, Georg and Anne) has decided to become a founding patron of the Bavarian natural history museum. We are particularly interested in what the future of food will look like for humanity. The current agro-industrial system which we have established in the last 50 years, especially the animal-meat-egg-dairy system is not sustainable. If we go on like this, more and more people and more and more animals will strip the earth bare. The future of man in nature needs to be accessible for children especially, in a way that helps them understand the consequences of our diet on ourselves and nature. For that reason, we must develop new ways to communicate knowledge. Facilities where children can experience knowledge and nature hands-on would be desirable. We are willing to contribute the methods we have developed in Hermannsdorf for a mindful and symbiotic land use regarding coexistence of soil, water, plants, animals and humans, for mutual benefit and wellbeing."