The first section of the permanent exhibition is divided into two large exhibition rooms. More than 1400 individual objects are on display here, ranging from small, fossilised shark teeth to a 6-metre-long plateosaurus, and from hundreds of beetles to a real specimen of a giraffe. The highlights of the exhibition are the life-size sculptures of two whales diving through the room.
The exhibition tour begins with a journey through the cosmic foundations of our world and leads to the geological processes on our earth that are the basis for the emergence of life. In the following, important stages of evolution – the adaptations to life in the water, the step on land and the conquest of the airspace – are explained by means of spectacular fossil finds, reconstructions, models and multimedia technology.
The display cases contain fossil evidence of the diversity of long-gone periods of the Earth’s history. Marvel at the diversity of ammonites, an extinct cephalopod group with twisted shells. Among the special exhibits are trilobites that are over 500 million years old, fossilised crabs from the Tertiary period and various dinosaur skeletons, some of which were found in Saxony-Anhalt.
Continue to part 2 of the exhibition “Evolution and biodiversity”
