Geological-Paleontological Museum Hamburg
The Geological-Paleontological Museum of the University of Hamburg provides information on 900 m² about the geological development of planet earth and the origin and development of life on it.
The Geological-Paleontological Museum emerged from the geological - paleontological collections of the former Natural History Museum Hamburg . In 1977 it moved into its current premises in the Hamburg district of Rotherbaum . There are two other museums belonging to the University of Hamburg, the Mineralogical Museum and the Zoological Museum . In 2014, all of them were organized into the Center for Natural History (CeNak) of the University of Hamburg .
The museum shows the development of living things over the last 3.5 billion years and exhibits fossils from well-known sites such as Solnhofen or Messel . It also explains the influence of geological development on the development of life and the effects of the advancement and retreat of glaciers during the ice ages.
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View of the exhibition
Single showcase: “Beginnings of Life” with stromatolite
Exhibition detail : iron meteorite and giant ammonite
Exhibition detail: Silicified Kierfernstamm from the Tertiary
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Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 5 ″ N , 9 ° 58 ′ 28 ″ E