Neanderthal Museum

The Neanderthal Museum is a museum in the Neander Valley near Dusseldorf. It covers the prehistory and early history of mankind and the one named after the archaeological site of the fossil Neanderthal Neanderthal.

Museum

The museum was based on a design by Günter Zamp Kelp, Julius Krauss and Arno Brandlhuber built in 1996 directly on the connecting road between Erkrath and Mettmann. Previously, the exhibition was housed in a building that is a little more in the woods a few hundred yards away; there is now located a Stone Age Workshop. The Neanderthal Foundation is the institution of the museum, which is visited annually by approximately 170 000 people.

In today ovoid museum building there is a continuous " trail " from the entrance to the top floor screwed. The exhibits are partly arranged chronologically by periods of the Incarnation, partly by social and cultural topics. An included in the admission price audio system allows a self-responsible leadership in German and in English. Numerous, very detailed information boards and some video installations are integrated in these and other languages ​​in the exhibition. With the help of numerous living large reconstructions of Neanderthals and other hominids is trying to convey a vivid picture of the appearance of these early relatives of anatomically modern humans. The exhibition is complemented by a movie screen, a café and a museum shop.

The museum also houses an archaeological garden near the former location of the "small box Hofer Grotto" ( from the locality of the bones of Neanderthal 1856), which was destroyed by limestone quarrying in the area. The former location of the cave could be located again until August 1997. The site is now a large meadow at the Düsseldorf with several explanatory and stimulating art objects; for example, the walk is designed by the terrain as timeline.

Direct starts and ends at the Museum of Art Trail traces People with works by 11 artists. On the Art Trail borders the Ice Age game reserve Neandertal. In the Stone Age Workshop stone-age techniques and ways of working for young and old are practically tangible.

Awards

• 2009: German archeology price of DGUF

Others

The museum was the film location and the scene in the television series Tatort, which (see list of crime scene episodes) aired on March 19, 2006 in ARD in the sequence 625 Pechmarie.