Nature Lab

Every organism employs different strategies to survive and protect its offspring. Each one is connected to others and is part of a highly complex and often sensitive ecosystem. Visitors can discover for themselves what this means: looking through the microscope at lichens, for example, reveals that the cooperation (symbiosis) between fungi and algae produces completely new organisms. It soon becomes clear that fungi are much more exciting than many people might suppose – their symbiosis with plants is a widespread phenomenon and forms the basis for functioning systems.

At digital stations, visitors discover different habitats and get to alter them by making calculated changes. In exploration mode, they can delve even deeper, discovering who is related to whom and how. This reveals how even ostensibly minor interventions in nature can have a negative impact on the overall system, and vice versa: even tiny adjustments have the potential to achieve positive effects.