The Mammoth Museum provides an insight into the spectacular Ice Age finds from Niederweningen, the richest mammoth site in Switzerland, and displays a large mural of the Wehntal 45,000 years ago.

The Mammoth Museum provides an insight into the spectacular Ice Age finds from Niederweningen, the richest mammoth site in Switzerland, and displays a large mural of the Wehntal valley 45,000 years ago. The focus is on the find of a large mammoth skeleton from 2003, a life-size mammoth reconstruction and the worldwide unique reconstruction of a newborn mammoth calf. Diverse exhibition objects and pictures lead along the "time path" from settlement in historical times to the plant and animal world of the Ice Age and further to the creatures of the tropical Jurassic Sea, from which the Lägernkalke originate. Further finds from the ice-age peat layer come from woolly rhinoceros, wild horse, steppe bison, wolf and cave hyena. The insect and plant remains allow a detailed environmental reconstruction. From the climate archive of the deposits in the former glacial lake of the Wehntal comes the attractive image series "Ice ages and climate change of the past 500,000 years".


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