Named after the nearby Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin’s natural history museum.
The station opened in 1923 as Stettiner Bahnhof, became Nordbahnhof in 1951 and Zinnowitzer Straße in 1991. Because that street was of little importance, a passengers’ association and politicians proposed in 2007 to name the station after the museum, whose collections hold more than 30 million objects. The renaming came in December 2009.