The Staatliches Naturhistorisches Museum is a science and natural history museum in Braunschweig. Inaugurated in 1754, the museum was born as a Ducal Cabinet of Art and Natural History founded by Duke Charles I at the suggestion of Daniel de Superville. The art collection has become the founding nucleus of the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, another important museum in the city . The Staatliches Naturhistorisches Museum houses a rich scientific collection, including 3,000 specimens of mammals, 50,000 specimens of birds, 10,300 birds' eggs, 4,000 skeletons and 1,000 specimens of fish, amphibians and reptiles. The insects are about 80,000 Lepidoptera, 85,000 Beetles, 10,000 molluscs and about 5,000 other fossils. Inside the museum we also find an aquarium.

The museum is housed in a brick building, former college, built in the style of the so-called Brick Expressionism (in German "Backsteinexpressionismus") by the architect Emil Herzig.