geological museum

To reach its highest point one has climbed a whopping 189 steps, and then of course later all 189 steps down again, but regardless od such still worth it. On different floors in the massive 180 feet high Schwanenturm (Swan tower) an exhibition of rocks and palaeontological finds from the Lower-Rhine. The collection, which is collected in nearly 50 years, shows how this landscape was formed some 200,000 years ago by an enormous glacier which stretched from the North Pole to this area. This pushed the earth forwards thus forming the moraines at the Rhine Valley. Furthermore info about its prehistoric flora and fauna, a portrait gallery of personalities, a fortress scalemodel as well as a wonderful view over the city and its surroundings, even into in Netherlands.

Die sehr kleine geologische Sammlung befindet sich im Schwanenturm und ist im Eintrittspreis für diesen enthalten. Ein echtes Highlight ist der Schädel eines eiszeitlichen Mammuts, an dem man sogar nachweisen konnte, dass dieses Tier an starken Zahnschmerzen litt. Ich will nicht zu viel verraten, einfach angucken!