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On December 7th, 2025, the RiesCraterMuseum Noerdlingen invites visitors to unlock the secrets of unknown stone objects (USOs) with expert knowledge, microscopes, spectrometers, and, if desired, a rock saw. Bring us up to three finds, we will take a look at your treasures and give you our assessment of what they are. December 7, 2025, […]

On October 27, 2025, the RiesKraterMuseum hosted the icebreaker party for participants of the Paneth Colloquium. The Paneth Colloquium is a renowned symposium on cosmochemistry, planetology, and astrophysics. The colloquium is organized by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research and the University of Göttingen and takes place at irregular intervals in Nördlingen. This […]

By self-upgrading key control systems for exhibition technology, the RiesKraterMuseum has succeeded in making a central part of its permanent exhibition—the impact film—accessible to deaf visitors. Since the new technology deliberately focuses on aspects such as expandability, flexibility, and future-proofing, it is also possible to offer the film in numerous other languages or to show […]

Our former museum director Dr. Michael Schieber passed away on 05.07.2025. As director of the RiesKraterMuseum from its opening year 1990 until the end of 2010, Dr. Schieber breathed the soul into our museum that still characterizes it today and which will be preserved. We will remember him as a warm, humorous and enthusiastic person […]

At the end of June, Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn from Thailand visited the Nördlinger Ries. She began her two-day visit with a guided tour of the RiesCraterMuseum by museum director Prof. Dr. Stefan Hölzl. Prof. Dr. Jürgen Hohnholz from Tübingen, on whose initiative the visit to the Ries went back and who accompanied the visit, […]

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 […]