Paläontologisches Museum München

The Paleontological Museum in Munich is the public part of the Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology and Geology in Munich near the king square. The building in the Richard -Wagner-Straße was designed by Leonhard Romeis.

The eclectic museum building dates from the turn of the 20th century and was planned as a school of applied arts. On display are fossils from different periods of Earth's history.

Showpieces are so far the only specimen of Archaeopteryx bavarica ( " copy of the Solnhofen stock association" ) from the Upper Jurassic Solnhofen limestone as well as the smallest and largest dinosaur Bavaria. Moreover, in addition to many other fossils of the head of a Triceratops, a herbivorous dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of North America, as well as the Gomphotherium of Gweng and skeletons of a giant stag, a cave bear and a saber- toothed tiger are issued. Documented is also the story of the Nordlinger Ries, a crater that was formed by a meteorite impact.

Address

Richard -Wagner -Straße 10, 80333 Munich