Man’s View on Animals. Josef Pallenberg’s Animal Sculptures

On the upper floor of the Museum of Natural History, on Saturdays and Sundays you can visit the permanent exhibition "How People See Animals. The animal sculptures of Josef Pallenberg".

Covering an area of about 200 m², six rooms reconstruct the historical, scientific, political and aesthetic contexts of Pallenberg's animal sculpture at the beginning of the 20th century. Taking up this historical context, the exhibition invites visitors to reflect on their own relationship to animals. What does it mean to live together with animals and to work on this basis as an animal sculptor? How do we want to and can we live together with animals? Are we allowed to imprison, display, harm or even kill them for scientific, economic or artistic reasons?

For the first time, excerpts from the sketchbooks found in the collection of the Aquazoo Löbbecke Museum and photographic material will also be presented, showing the extraordinary relationship of Pallenberg the man to wild animals.