On the 22nd of October 2012 the new Bruker 7 Tesla animal MRT-scanner facility was opened with a nice ceremony. The system was awarded by the Mercator Foundation to the Mercator Research Group „Structure of Memory“. The facility includes, besides the scanner, a surgery and a testing room as well as animal housing facilities for mice, rats, and pigeons. In addition, a physicist from Caltech was hired to run the system. The first pictures taken were from mandarins and kiwis, but meanwhile mice, rat, and pigeon brains were also successfully analyzed. The goal for the Biopsychology lab will be to establish awake pigeon fMRI.