Gunzenhausen Fossil and Stone Printing Museum
The Gunzenhausen Fossil and Stone Printing Museum , formerly known as the Maxberg Museum or Museum auf dem Maxberg , is a paleontological and geological museum in Gunzenhausen , a town in the Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Central Franconia .
The museum is located at Sonnenstraße 4 and houses numerous fossils from the region, especially from the Solnhofen limestone . You can see the skeleton of a Plateosaurus and a cast of the Archeopteryx . A department of the museum deals with lithography . Gunzenhausen also has the Archaeological Museum and the City Museum .
The museum goes back to the collection of Alphons L. Zehntner, who opened the museum on the Maxberg (today in Upper Bavaria ) south of Solnhofen on May 30, 1959 , which is considered to be the oldest museum of its kind in the region. A change of location to Gunzenhausen followed.
Web links
- Official website
- Museum on the homepage of the city of Gunzenhausen
- Museum information in the state office for non-state museums in Bavaria
Individual evidence
- ^ The Fossil Department , Fossil and Stone Printing Museum Gunzenhausen, accessed on September 23, 2016
- ↑ The history of the museum , Fossil and Stone Printing Museum Gunzenhausen, accessed on September 23, 2016
Coordinates: 49 ° 6 ′ 42.7 " N , 10 ° 45 ′ 23.6" E