Helmut "Helix" Nisters
private:
Franz-Fischer-Str. 46
A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
phone: 0043 / 512 / 57 32 14
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
website: www.netwing.at/nisters
office:
Natural History Department of the
Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck
Feldstrasse 11a
A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
phone: 0043 / 512 / 58 72 86 - 37
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
website: www.tiroler-landesmuseum.at


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> Dear Conchlers,
>
> today on our national feast day in Austria most of the museums are open to
> show their
> collection to the public without payment. There are also guided visists
and
> I had
> the oppurtinity to show a small part of the mollusc collection of our
> museum, not in
> my office at the natural history department, but on large table. I had
also
> my microscope
> with me and showed also microshells to the people. Also some of the newest
> donations
> I presented to the public. The interest to see the museum and it's
> collection was
> great and we had more than 1 300 people today, which is enormous for
> Innsbruck.
> The people were really impressed of the shells and didn't really know much
> about
> them. Most of the shells, especially the micros, were unknown and they
> caused
> asthonishment. About 800 - 1000 people viewed through my microscope, many
> of them children and pupils of different schools. A kid of 4 years looked
> through
> my large standing - light magnifier, which I installed too, and looked
> below it
> and saw the small shells under it (some Rissoidae) and cried: "Pa, look,
> how small
> the shells are" (in that sense).
> It was exciting how interested will get the people in nature.
> with best regards from Innsbruck and tired of that day
> Helmut
>
> Helmut "Helix" Nisters
> private:
> Franz-Fischer-Str. 46
> A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
> phone: 0043 / 512 / 57 32 14
> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
> website: www.netwing.at/nisters
> office:
> Natural History Department of the
> Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck
> Feldstrasse 11a
> A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
> phone: 0043 / 512 / 58 72 86 - 37
> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
> website: www.tiroler-landesmuseum.at