Sieblos Museum
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| place | Poppenhausen (Wasserkuppe) |
| Art |
Paleontological-geological museum
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| opening | 1995 |
| operator |
Museum Association Poppenhausen / Wasserkuppe eV
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| Website | |
| ISIL | DE-MUS-472613 |
The Sieblos Museum in Poppenhausen (Wasserkuppe) is a palaeontological - geological museum on the lower ground floor of the town hall. It was opened in January 1995, two years after the collector Hugo Schubert donated part of the fossils he had found and prepared in the overburden of the Sieblos mine in the 1980s to the community.
The permanent exhibition is entered through an artificial mine tunnel. First, the visitor learns details about the history of mining in Sieblos . Then the geological structure and the dating of the sieve hole layers are explained. After leaving the tunnel, the visitor finds the scenic representations of an overburden dump and a laboratory. The sieve-less fossils are in the next room, mostly in showcases.
Finds from an abandoned lignite mine in the Sieblos district at the foot of the Wasserkuppe are exhibited. The site houses fossils of the flora and fauna of a freshwater lake with silting zones from the Lower Oligocene, around 35 million years old. The plant species on display in the museum include ferns, naked plants, and bedspreads. In addition, fossils of insects, crustaceans (water lice), fish, small amphibians and snails as well as parts of birds, crocodiles and mammals are presented.
Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 21.5 ″ N , 9 ° 52 ′ 10.6 ″ E