From 25 Jun 2024 to 24 Dec 2025

Exposition temporaire

Free

Stan, the T. rex and a few of its contemporaries are staying for a while longer at the Museum of Natural History and Ethnography in Colmar, inviting you on a new journey into the past, to meet the plants that made up the forests of yesteryear. Drawing on its incredible palaeontology collection, Colmar's Museum of Natural History and Ethnography is offering a new temporary exhibition packed with fossils. Each of the specimens in the exhibition has been carefully selected from the museum's 18,600 rocks and fossils to tell you the story of plant evolution over nearly 2.7 billion years. A plunge into the past to discover how plants transformed the planet, how they conquered dry land to propel themselves ever higher into the light and ever further across the continents.

Gigantic fossil trunks stand side by side with pieces of rare finesse, like this fossil leaf whose veins can still be made out and which seems to be delicately resting on the rock, or this flower, preserved in Burmese amber for almost 100 million years...

Palaeontological digs, events for schoolchildren, a series of lectures and guided tours will also be on the programme.

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Colmar
11 Rue Turenne
68000 Colmar
France

0389238415
contact@museumcolmar.org