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On March 13, 2025, the new special exhibition “Rocky Roads to Life” was opened at the RiesKraterMuseum with well over a hundred guests. The special exhibition was developed by the RiesKraterMuseum. It aims to show unusual paths to a deeper understanding of life in dialog with the stones and to raise awareness of the fact […]

On March 13, 2025, the new special exhibition “Rocky Roads to Life” was opened at the RiesKraterMuseum with 135 guests. The special exhibition was developed by the RiesKraterMuseum. It aims to show unusual paths to a deeper understanding of life in dialog with the stones and to raise awareness of the fact that the geosphere […]

For billions of years, the world of rocks and life have been closely linked through the action of water. As a result, the mineral diversity of the earth and biological evolution are interrelated. The new special exhibition “Rocky Roads to Life”, developed at the RiesCraterMuseum, focuses on the close relationship between rock and life. The […]

On the initiative of the RiesCraterMuseum, a display case was set up in the Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium Nördlingen with objects showing original meteorites, impact rocks, fossils from Lake Riesse and archaeological artifacts. The showcase is designed as a permanent exhibition in the school. The aim is to arouse curiosity through the authenticity of the original objects apart […]

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 […]