With its reopening, the Senckenberg Naturmuseum is once again bringing to Frankfurt the real dinosaur excavation site that already thrilled visitors* last summer. For this, a rock block of about 20 square meters full of dinosaur bones, a "bonebed" recovered from the Lance Formation in Wyoming, was brought by sea from the USA to Frankfurt in early 2020. At the museum, the Offenbach-based artists' collective YRD.Works then designed a temporary exhibition space that allows a team of paleontologists to dig for dinosaur bones in front of visitors and then prepare them under laboratory conditions. Here, research and science are made tangible.
The cooperative exhibition, which was put together jointly with the Wyoming Dinosaur Center Thermopolis, the Frankfurter Kunstverein and with National Geographic, also brings a valuable object of the Senckenberg permanent exhibition into focus, which is being staged in a completely new way for this purpose: the Edmontosaurus mummy, called Edmond. For more than 100 years, the Senckenberg Naturmuseum Frankfurt has been home to the fossil, which is important for science and - like the bonebed - comes from the Lance Formation in Wyoming. Because of its nearly complete skeleton and skin preservation, it is an important testimony to the appearance of dinosaurs.
A very exciting exhibit well worth seeing that brings together science, research, art and digital in a way that is both entertaining and educational.
There are a few rules to keep in mind when visiting the museum, which you can find HERE
