Abstract
Emerging from the sixteenth century “Cabinet of Arts and Natural Curiosities” of the Dukes of Wurttemberg, the Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History (SMNS) ranks among the oldest and most prominent natural history museums in Europe. With its collections, libraries, laboratories, and other research facilities, the museum comprises two building complexes both with extensive exhibition and storage areas. The permanent exhibitions at Museum Schloss Rosenstein and Museum am Lowentor are tightly interwoven in form and content. Today, the SMNS collections hold more than 12 million specimens and other natural objects as well as numerous associated data on taxonomy, genetics, ecology, and geography. Together these comprehensive records and archives of life on Earth and its history constitute a large-scale research infrastructure used by research scientists and the international community. Characteristic of the SMNS is the tight collaboration between its paleontologists and researchers working on extant fauna.
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