Geology

Collection

Geology

How did earth and life come into existence? What processes took place and are taking place inside the earth and on the surface of our planet? Museon’s impressive collection of rocks, fossils and minerals – some 30,000 in total - tells the tale.

All subjects

		Pleistocene mammals from the Netherlands
		Fossils from Brazil
		Amber fossils
		Fossils from Solnhofen
		Plant fossils from the Carboniferous
		Scottish fossils
		Bundenbach fossils
		Minerals
		Moroccan fossils
		Icelandic lava rocks

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Cave bear, right foot

Pleistocene mammals from the Netherlands

Animals that lived in the coldest part of the Pleistocene, such as mammoths, visents and bears.

Teleost: Tharrias araripis

Fossils from Brazil

Fossils from the Brazilian Araripe region, from the time that the connection with South America was broken and the southern Atlantic Ocean developed.

Amber fossil

Amber fossils

Insects and other species found in amber.

Archaeopteryx

Fossils from Solnhofen

Archaeopteryx and contemporaries.

Lycopodiopsida

Plant fossils from the Carboniferous

Residues of tropical Holland: plant fossils in the shape of leaf imprints, petrified stems and root stocks.

Loganellia taiti, een kaakloze vis. Ouderom: Siluur.

Scottish fossils

This fossil collection mainly contains beautifully preserved fish species that are more modern than the jawless fish from the Siluric period.

Brittle star

Bundenbach fossils

This collection is a great example of life in the ocean in the Devonian, 409 to 386 million years ago.

Azurite and malachite (detail)

Minerals

4000 Objects with roughly some 800 different species.

Phosphatosaurus

Moroccan fossils

The fossils of Maastrichtian age Fossielen, including , waaronder a crocodile, a shark and a few large jaw parts of a Mosasaurus.

Pillow lava

Icelandic lava rocks

The collection shows which type of rocks on the Mid-Oceanic Ridge were used to record results in modern geological research.