Identification service

The staff of the Natural History Museum love to share their knowledge, identify minerals, fossils or birds.
Enquiries from companies attract a fee. Gemstones cannot be determined.

You can bring your finds to the museum and our museum experts will find out what you have found. We will contact you at a later date with the results. We will determine your treasures free of charge and will be happy to answer any questions you may have. And who knows: maybe we'll even put your treasure on display in the museum for a while?

Palaeontology (Invertebrates & Plants)

Danae Thivaiou

Curator Palaeontology

Phone +41 61 266 55 63

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Spiders

Christian Kropf

Head of Life Sciences

Phone +41 61 266 55 44

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Bones & Teeth (Vertebrates)

Loïc Costeur

Head of Earth Sciences / Curator Vertebrate Palaeontology

Phone +41 61 266 55 87

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Other Groups

Bats
www.fledermaus.ch

Amphibians, Reptiles
www.karch.ch