In 1856 he was appointed director of the zoological museum.

The zoological museum was built in 1855, and the library building in 1867.

At the age of seven, he declared that he would run a zoological museum.

From 1919 to 1927 he was curator at the zoological museum in Strasbourg.

He was the founder of the zoological museum of Berlin in 1809.

He also contributed to a lesser degree to the Zoological Museum.

It is the largest zoological museum in China.

That population is now extinct, although specimens collected there are retained in zoological museums.

However, his parents established a zoological museum as a compensation, and footed the bill for expeditions all over the world to seek out animals.

Illiger was professor and director of the zoological museum in Berlin from its formation in 1810 until his death.