| Established: | 1775 |
| Founder: | Oluf Gerhard Tychsen (1734–1815) |
| Origin: | various natural history collections and natural history cabinet of Grand Duke Friedrich Franz I (Mecklenburg) |
| Number of objects: | approx. 250,000 series of animals from all over the world |
| Focus of the collections: | molluscs, insects, crustaceans, scorpions, fish, marine bristle worms |
| Annual visitors: | approx. 20.000 |
| Highlights: | Rostock Pfeilstorch as the oldest evidence of bird migration, original ichthyosaurs, Australian animals by Ferdinand von Müller |
