Lüneburg Nature Museum
The Lüneburg Nature Museum was located in the historic city center of Lüneburg from 1990 to 2010 on the edge of the subsidence area. The focus of the exhibitions was on the local habitats of forest, heather, moor, floodplain and city as well as regional geology.
Sponsorship and operation
The natural science association for the Principality of Lüneburg from 1851 eV was responsible for the nature museum . The museum has been closed since December 31, 2010. Since March 1, 2015, part of the exhibition has been presented in the Lüneburg Museum with a new concept, together with objects from the former Museum for the Principality of Lüneburg and the Lüneburg City Archeology.
Construction and exhibitions
The Lüneburg Nature Museum not only showed clearly designed exhibitions, it also saw itself as an ecologically oriented educational facility of regional importance. The biological-ecological exhibitions on the habitats forest, moor, heathland and city - typical ecosystems of the local landscape - were presented with their animals and plants in such a way that the interaction between man and nature was understandable. That is why there were also parts of the exhibition that gave insights into the cultural and historical epochs of the Stone Age and Bronze Age . The importance of water as an indispensable element of life was presented in its historical, geological and technical aspects.
Furthermore, the visitor learned interesting facts about geology , mineralogy and the environment of earlier geological epochs. The arch spanned from the formation of the Lower Saxony salt domes to the last ice ages, which shaped our landscape.
Special consideration was given to the effects of the Lüneburg salt extraction, which led to considerable subsidence damage in the old town. The museum building itself was a vivid example of this, because the edge of the subsidence area leads through the house, which is why one of the exhibition rooms had a sloping floor on which the subsidence was clearly visible.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 14 ′ 49.8 " N , 10 ° 24 ′ 14.5" E