For several decades the museum’s founder Hans Bäumler has also devoted a great amount of energy towards the preservation and conservation of nature and the animal world. Along with the cultivation and management of his own forest in Bavaria, his nature-oriented curiosity and dedication to discovery and exploration has taken him to many far-off lands. On his journeys through Siberia, Mongolia, Canada and Africa he has learned to love and understand the primitive beauty of the wilderness. In a space of over 600 square meters a large number of unique, exotic animal specimens, together with other precious finds from the natural world – from the smallest bird species and the very smallest vertebrate animal to a broad range of native wild animal species, albinos, butterflies, fossils, and minerals.