Neanderthal Museum
The Neanderthal Museum (the museum also uses English spelling in German) is a museum in the Neanderthal near Mettmann . It deals with the origin and early history of mankind as well as after the site of fossil Neanderthal 1 named Neanderthal . Bärbel Auffermann, who holds a PhD in prehistoric archeology, has been the director of the museum, succeeding Gerd-Christian Less, since January 1, 2019 .
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The museum was opened in 1996 based on a design by Günter Zamp Kelp , Julius Krauss and Arno Brandlhuber directly on the road connecting Erkrath and Mettmann . The exhibition had previously been housed in a building a few hundred meters away in the forest; a stone age workshop is housed there today . The Neanderthal Foundation is the sponsor of the museum, which is visited by around 170,000 people every year.
In today's almost oval museum building, a stepless "circular path" winds from the entrance area to the top floor. The exhibits are partly arranged chronologically according to the epochs of the Incarnation , partly according to social and cultural subject areas. An audio system included in the admission price enables independent guided tours in German and English. Numerous, very detailed information boards and some video installations are integrated into the exhibition in these and other languages. With the help of numerous life-size reconstructions of Neanderthals and other pre- humans , an attempt is made to convey a clear picture of the appearance of these early relatives of anatomically modern humans . The exhibition is complemented by a film screen, a café and a museum shop .
The museum also has an archaeological garden in the immediate vicinity of the former location of the “Kleine Feldhofer Grotte ” (the site where the bones of the Neanderthal man was found in 1856), which was destroyed by limestone mining in this area. The position of the grotto could not be located again until August 1997. The garden consists of a large meadow on the Düssel with several explanatory and stimulating art objects; for example, the footpath through the site is designed as a timeline .
The MenschenSpuren art trail starts and ends directly at the museum, with works by eleven artists. The Ice Age game reserve Neandertal borders the Art Trail . In the Stone Age workshop, Stone Age techniques and working methods can be practically experienced by young and old.
Awards
- 2009: German Archeology Prize of the DGUF
Others
The outdoor area of the museum was the filming and crime scene for the episode Pechmarie of the Tatort television series , which was broadcast on March 19, 2006 on ARD . In 2017 the exhibition Two Million Years Migration was shown in the museum .
Web links
- www.neanderthal.de
- Stone Age workshop of the Neanderthal Museum
- Neanderthal Museum. In: arch INFORM .
- Literature by and about Neanderthal Museum in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ German would be Neanderthal Museum or Neanderthal Museum , or with “h” according to the spelling that is not used anywhere except in Mettmann .
- ↑ Homepage Neanderthal Museum , accessed on January 11, 2019
- ^ Neanderthal.de ( memento from March 22, 2013 on WebCite ) accessed on August 4, 2011
- ↑ Andreas Fasel: We are all migrants, in: Welt am Sonntag No. 22, May 28, 2017, NRW, p. 1.
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 '36.4 " N , 6 ° 57' 3.8" E