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In mid-September 2024, the Ries and the RiesCraterMuseum were once again the venue for the European Space Agency’s “PANGAEA 2024” astronaut training program. In addition to lectures and exercises, the program included several field excursions as well as visits to the museum and the drill core repository and isotope laboratory of the Center for Ries […]

The RiesCraterMuseum is taking part in the Nördlingen Cultural Festival on September 21th, 2024. The program includes three items: The cultural festival program of the museum takes place between 18:30 and 22:30. Download the program of the RiesCraterMuseum

n the night from May 10 to 11, 2024, the AllSky camera of the RiesCraterMuseum was able to capture northern lights over the sky of Nördlingen for several hours. An animation can be seen here. The unusual visibility of an aurora borealis for this latitude is due to the strongest geomagnetic storm in 11 years, […]

What is the difference between a living being and a stone? What are the connections between the two? And what do greenhouse gases have to do with it? In the lecture “What is life and how did it come about? Stony paths to an answer“, which will take place as part of the Rieser Kulturtage […]

On April 26, 2024, the RiesCraterMuseum was the venue for the ceremony to name the suevite “Rock of the Year 2024”. The ceremony was opened by Andreas Günther-Plönes, Managing Director of the Professional Association of German Geoscientists (BDG) and Prof. Dr. Dr. Joris Peters, Director General of the Bavarian State Natural Science Collections (SNSB). The […]

The RiesKraterMuseum has received a valuable new exhibit: A drill core from Bavaria that contains exactly those geological layers of sediment that were formed around the time of the mass extinction of the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago. The special thing about the drill core from the Latten Mountains (south of Bad Reichenhall): At […]

Since December 8, the new special exhibition “Micrometeorites: Dust from outer space – everywhere!” has been on display at the RiesKraterMuseum. The exhibition was opened the evening before with over eighty guests. The special exhibition was developed by the RiesKraterMuseum. The starting point for the planning were fascinating microphotographs by Jan Braly Kihle, chief geologist […]

From Friday, December 8, the new special exhibition “Micrometeorites: Dust from outer space – everywhere!” can be seen.

From 09/17 to 09/21 2023, the RiesKraterMueum/ ZERIN was once again one of the three training locations as part of the "PANGAEA" astronaut training program of the European Space Agency ESA.

The cameras on the roof of the RiesCraterMuseum recorded the bolide that could be seen over Bavaria and the Czech Republic yesterday evening, June 26th 2023. At 10.45 pm, a brief, extremely bright flash of light was recorded on the black and white camera. The light trail is clearly visible in the still images of […]