• Closed on Mondays, open Tuesday to Sunday until 6pm, with last entry 30 minutes before closing. The exhibition rooms are also closed on Nov 1, 24 and 25 for events
• Time-slot tickets online are what the museum recommends to avoid the queue at the ticket office
• Kids' audio guide in English and German for ages 6 and up, free on your own phone with no app to download

The museum is built around its dinosaur hall, where kids crane up at Giraffatitan, the largest mounted dinosaur skeleton in the world. Tristan Otto, an exceptionally well-preserved T. rex, and the Berlin Archaeopteryx, an early bird fossil, are on show too.

Other galleries cover minerals, the solar system, evolution and taxidermy animals, plus the Wet Collection: about a million specimens in jars of alcohol.