Museum für Naturkunde und Vorgeschichte, Natural history and archaeology museum in Dessau-Roßlau, Germany.

The Museum for Natural History and Prehistory occupies the Leopold-Dank-Stift building and presents six distinct exhibition areas with materials ranging from prehistoric times to geological collections across multiple floors. The rooms are organized chronologically and by subject, allowing visitors to move systematically through time.

The museum opened in 1927 in the Leopold-Dank-Stift, built 1746–1750 and previously home to the Anhaltische Kunsthalle. Its archaeological holdings grew from a municipal collection founded in 1901, enlarged in 1907 by Hans Seelmann's private collection and by excavations of the Anhaltischer Geschichtsverein between 1908 and 1911. Seelmann, its first director, was dismissed in 1936 because of his Jewish descent; the building burned out in an air raid on 7 March 1945 and an exhibition was shown again in 1948.

The permanent exhibition displays regional archaeological finds from ice age hunters through early farming societies and bronze age settlements, documenting how people lived and changed over thousands of years in this area. These objects help visitors understand the different cultures that inhabited this region.

The building is centrally located in the city and is easily accessible by public transport, with exhibitions that welcome all visitors. It is best to visit on quieter weekdays if you prefer to view the objects at your own pace.

The tower section, "A Walk Through Earth History", fills six floors with fossils from the earliest eras to the Pleistocene. The building itself is the Leopold-Dank-Stift, erected between 1746 and 1750 and converted in 1900 by Gustav Teichmüller for the Anhalt Art Gallery before the museum moved in.