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Natural History Museum Maastricht
The museum depicts the natural history of South Limburg. Modern displays offer an insight into both the recent and distant past. The museum holds more than 550,000 natural objects. The collection comprises more than 11,000 species.
The Collection
Among the museum's highlights are the remains of enormous Mosasaurs and Giant Turtles found in marlstone in the St. Pietersberg caverns. Fossils of all shapes and sizes show how the area of southern Limburg has changed in the course of the last 300 million years. The natural features of the modern-day landscape are explained using startling visual projections, computers and aquariums. The collection of rough and cut gemstones, the 'Cabinet' (a period room from the beginning of the 20th century), the museum cafe and botanical garden displaying local plant varieties also add to the museum's compelling appeal.
Permanent Exhibitions
The permanent exhibits illustrate the present-day natural landscape of southern Limburg and is divided in three main themes: looking back in time (geology), playing in the present (biology) and from past to present (dynamics).
Geology
The southern Limburg geology exhibit takes the visitor on a journey through time. Visitors travel past tropical swamps of the Carboniferous age (350 million years ago) and through the Cretaceous Sea, which flooded southern Limburg towards the end of the Cretaceous, some 70 million years ago. Travelers cross the famous KT-boundary, which marks the moment in time when 60 percent of all species suddenly went extinct, amongst which was the Maastricht Mosasaur. The journey continues through the sand, gravel and brown coal (lignite) deposits of the Cenozoic. Continuing through the warm and cold phases of the youngest time slice, the Quaternary, we come across the oldest traces of human occupation in the Netherlands, left by the Belvédère hunters. The journey through time ends as the first Romans reach Maastricht: the origin of the city of Maastricht.
Biology
The biology department provides information on present day fauna and flora in the area. In a playful way, the following types of landscape that characterizes southern Limburg are illustrated: wooded slopes, chalk soil pastures, puddles, former gravel pits along the River Maas and the Maastricht city walls.
The Subterraneum, the Cabinet and a world collection of precious stones complement the exhibitions.
Dynamics
Wedged in between the geological and biological exhibits is the so-called 'Dynamicum,' a sub unit illustrating the impact of humans and climate on natural landscape, flora and fauna. Natural landscape, flora and fauna have continuously changed throughout millions of years, but at a very slow pace indeed. During the last two thousand years, however, this change proceeds much more rapidly.
Location
Natural History Museum
De Bosquetplein 6-7
6211 KJ Maastricht
The Collection
Among the museum's highlights are the remains of enormous Mosasaurs and Giant Turtles found in marlstone in the St. Pietersberg caverns. Fossils of all shapes and sizes show how the area of southern Limburg has changed in the course of the last 300 million years. The natural features of the modern-day landscape are explained using startling visual projections, computers and aquariums. The collection of rough and cut gemstones, the 'Cabinet' (a period room from the beginning of the 20th century), the museum cafe and botanical garden displaying local plant varieties also add to the museum's compelling appeal.
Permanent Exhibitions
The permanent exhibits illustrate the present-day natural landscape of southern Limburg and is divided in three main themes: looking back in time (geology), playing in the present (biology) and from past to present (dynamics).
Geology
The southern Limburg geology exhibit takes the visitor on a journey through time. Visitors travel past tropical swamps of the Carboniferous age (350 million years ago) and through the Cretaceous Sea, which flooded southern Limburg towards the end of the Cretaceous, some 70 million years ago. Travelers cross the famous KT-boundary, which marks the moment in time when 60 percent of all species suddenly went extinct, amongst which was the Maastricht Mosasaur. The journey continues through the sand, gravel and brown coal (lignite) deposits of the Cenozoic. Continuing through the warm and cold phases of the youngest time slice, the Quaternary, we come across the oldest traces of human occupation in the Netherlands, left by the Belvédère hunters. The journey through time ends as the first Romans reach Maastricht: the origin of the city of Maastricht.
Biology
The biology department provides information on present day fauna and flora in the area. In a playful way, the following types of landscape that characterizes southern Limburg are illustrated: wooded slopes, chalk soil pastures, puddles, former gravel pits along the River Maas and the Maastricht city walls.
The Subterraneum, the Cabinet and a world collection of precious stones complement the exhibitions.
Dynamics
Wedged in between the geological and biological exhibits is the so-called 'Dynamicum,' a sub unit illustrating the impact of humans and climate on natural landscape, flora and fauna. Natural landscape, flora and fauna have continuously changed throughout millions of years, but at a very slow pace indeed. During the last two thousand years, however, this change proceeds much more rapidly.
Location
Natural History Museum
De Bosquetplein 6-7
6211 KJ Maastricht
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