| Established: | 1951 |
| Founder: | Otto E. Dibbelt (1881–1956) |
| Origin: | Private natural history collections and purchases by the founder O. Dibbelt |
| Number of objects: | approx. 50,000 series of marine animals from all over the world |
| Focus of the collections: | Marine mammals and fish, molluscs, coelenterates and crustaceans, marine exhibits |
| Annual visitors: | > 850.000 |
| Highlights: | Skeleton of a fin whale, stranded on Rügen Island in 1835, large model of a coral reef pillar, stony corals and octocorals from the Red Sea |
