The Palatinate Museum of Natural History -POLLICHIA Museum is one of two natural history museums in Rhineland-Palatinate. With around 1,700 m² of exhibition space (including 220 m² of special exhibition space) and around 500,000 collection specimens from the fields of zoology, botany and geosciences, it is a small to medium-sized museum.
Since 2008, the Palatinate Museum has been running a successful amphibian breeding project for the yellow-bellied toad (Bombina variegata) in collaboration with open-air biologist Dr. Christoph Bernd. In view of the success of the yellow-bellied toad project, an additional ex-situ species conservation project is planned to support the population of the midwife toad Alytes obstetricans, which is in sharp decline throughout Germany.
The aim is to halt the decline in the regional population of the species by releasing offspring in suitable habitats and by establishing new, stable and expanding populations in an optimally suited and long-term secured environment (biotope management) and to enable and promote a reintroduction.
Pfalzmuseum für Naturkunde
The Palatinate Museum of Natural History is working on species conservation projects such as amphibian breeding to stop the decline in regional populations.
