The Shark Exhibit informs visitors on the fascinating world of sharks – from their watery habitat to the evolution of the first shark forms more than 400 million years ago. What makes sharks such remarkably successful predators?
Find out just how sharks developed into the highly specialized, diversified top hunters in the oceans, and also delve into the often problematic relationship between humans and sharks more

Germany Tour

Opening on November 10, 2006, at the Zoological Museum in Hamburg

The tour through Germany started in Hamburg at the Biocenter and Zoological Museum of the University of Hamburg. The opening ceremony of the exhibition was timed to meet the opening of the 10th Annual Science Conference of the European Elasmobranch Association (EEA) hosted and organized by the German Elasmobranch Society (DEG).

If you are interested in the exhibit, please send an email to: shark@shark.ch

Dates:

Opening Germany Tour *
Biocenter and Zoological Museum Hamburg
 November 10 to May 20 2007

Naturkundemuseum Leipzig
 June 6 to November 11 2007

German Oceanographic Museum in Stralsund
Ozeaneum Stralsund
 July 24 2008 – January 2009

Back to Switzerland
Museum of Natural History St. Gallen
 April 2009

* Information on previous tours of the Exhibition can be found here