HALBERSTADT: Museum Heineanum

Building on its nearly 200-year history and its important collections, the Heineanum has devoted itself in particular to ornithology. The basis is the bird collection of Ferdinand Heine senior (○1809 †1894): from 12,367 specimens (7,313 mounted specimens and 5,054 skins) at that time, still about 11,600 specimens remain today. The Heine collection is noteworthy and has more than 310 type specimens of over 200 taxa. Most of them were described by Jean Cabanis and/or Ferdinand Heine junior in their collection catalogue ‘Museum Heineanum’ (published 1850–1863).