Urgeschichtliches Museum
Urgeschichtliches Museum stands in Blaubeuren, within the UNESCO World Heritage site Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura. Its galleries occupy the former Heilig-Geist-Spital and explore Paleolithic life in southern Germany.
The collection grew from Gustav Riek’s excavations at Brillenhöhle and Große Grotte, then expanded across six prehistoric sites. You encounter figurines, tools, jewellery, everyday objects, and musical instruments made by Ice Age hunter-gatherers. Themed treasure chambers bring together Aurignacian animal and human figures from caves including Hohle Fels, Vogelherd, and Geißenklösterle. Workshops let families and school groups work with flint, jet, amber, and mammoth ivory.
A complete Venus figurine from Hohle Fels gives the prehistoric story a human shape. Nearby, flutes made from mammoth ivory and bird bones reveal how early people turned materials into music. The accessible galleries also include a lion-man figure, a waterfowl sculpture, and a decorated deer-antler axe.
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