Südostbayerisches Naturkunde- und Mammut-Museum Siegsdorf, Natural history museum in Siegsdorf, Germany.
The museum in Siegsdorf displays fossils and rocks from millions of years of Earth's history across its exhibition spaces. The collections include bones from large animals, minerals, and other finds that show how nature and climate changed over time.
In 1975, pupils Bernard von Bredow and Robert Omelanowsky found mammoth bones in the Gerhartsreiter Graben near Siegsdorf. Bredow reported the find to experts and the municipality only in 1985; the recovery that followed also yielded bones of cave lion, wolf, giant deer, aurochs and woolly rhinoceros. A cast of the mammoth was shown in January 1987, and the museum opened on 13 May 1995.
The collections tell the story of this region's geological past and how people adapted to the landscape over time. Visitors can see how the environment and living conditions changed across different periods.
The museum is located in town and easy to reach, with accessible facilities for all visitors throughout the building. Plan enough time to explore the different exhibitions at your own pace, especially if you are interested in fossils and natural history.
The 1975 find in the Gerhartsreiter Graben was made by two Siegsdorf schoolboys, Bernard von Bredow and Robert Omelanowsky; Bredow only reported it to experts and the municipality in 1985. The later excavation also yielded bones of cave lion, wolf, giant deer, aurochs and woolly rhinoceros. The SteinZeitGarten, moved next to the museum in 2010, lets visitors try Stone Age working methods.
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