Geologisch-Paläontologisches Museum
The Geologisch-Paläontologisches Museum stands in Hamburg’s Rotherbaum district, beneath the Geomatikum. Its displays follow Earth’s geological development and the evolution of life across three and a half billion years.
Fossils from Solnhofen and Messel show remains from renowned German deposits. Glacial advances and retreats explain how ice ages reshaped life and landscapes. The collections grew from Hamburg’s former natural history holdings before moving to this basement location in 1977.
Regional fossil deposits and ice-age debris accompany a substantial collection of fossil squids. Baltic amber preserves insects, other arthropods and plant remains from an ecosystem that existed fifty million years ago. These tiny inclusions help researchers trace insect evolution, including the history of honeybees.
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