Museum educational offers

Extinct 65 million years ago and still everyone knows them - dinosaurs! Sometimes vegetarians, sometimes predators, large or small: they existed in great variety. The life and death of the dinosaurs are closely examined on the basis of exhibits in the exhibition. Individual topics and focal points can be discussed with the guides.

Fossils are important aids for paleontologists to gain insight into past earth ages. Fossils, plants and animals can be used to draw conclusions about environmental conditions and the lifestyles of long-extinct animals, for example in the new special exhibition "Urpferd 2.0". Ammonites, fossil plants and, of course, dinosaur skeletons can be viewed in the display collection. This museum talk includes an introduction to paleontological working methods and some of the most significant fossils and fossilization processes are presented.

Here, fossils and sediments tell stories about the evolution of the earth and life. Highlights of the exhibition include dinosaur fossils, amber insects and prehistoric horses. The geology of Hamburg's surroundings is also thematized, as are famous fossil deposits in Germany.

Very small, but huge. These are foraminifera. Most of us have come into contact with these microorganisms at one time or another, but we just don't know it. We show the habitat of foraminifera, what role these microfossils play in climate research and how they provide information about climate change.