Göttingen Museum of Zoology, Natural science museum in Göttingen, Germany.

The Biodiversity Museum is housed in the Forum Wissen building and focuses on evolution, ecosystems, and human impact on nature. The institution holds more than 100,000 biological specimens from university collections, ranging from small flatworms to whale skeletons and extinct birds.

Founded in 1773 as the Royal Academic Museum, the collection was first curated by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. In 1878 it moved into the newly built Natural History Museum on Berliner Straße. Closed since 2018 for a major building renovation, it is due to reopen at the end of 2026 as the Biodiversitätsmuseum Göttingen.

The name honours Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, the naturalist and founder of anthropology who served as the museum's first curator from 1773 to 1840. A rat king preserved in alcohol, shown alongside an X-ray of the same specimen, is among the objects visitors remember.

The Zoological Museum at Berliner Straße 28, near Göttingen station, has been closed since the building conversion began in 2018. Reopening as the Biodiversitätsmuseum Göttingen is planned for the end of 2026. Until then, the university museum Forum Wissen, opened in the same building in June 2022, is the accessible option.

The whale skeleton hanging in the Forum Wissen café is the "Göttinger Pottwal", a sperm whale bull about 18 years old and 17 metres long. In the old Zoological Museum it took up almost a quarter of the exhibition space; the stored skeleton was reassembled in 2023 and suspended from the café ceiling.