Special Exhibitions

The exhibition “Edmond. The Last Days of the Dinosaurs” takes visitors on an amazing journey into the past: it shows how paleontologists reconstruct the end of the Mesozoic era from the fossilized fragments of plants, animals, and other organisms. In addition to the impressively preserved and very rare mummy of the Edmontosaurus “Edmond,” original fossils—discovered and uncovered in Wyoming, excavated and documented in Frankfurt—also help tell the story of the final chapters of the Mesozoic era.

In four modules, visitors experience how researchers bring the bones of the past back to life. Time is turned back to a world of primeval landscapes, unknown plants, and fascinating creatures. A world that changed abruptly when a meteorite impact heralded the dramatic mass extinction in the Mesozoic era and the last days of the dinosaurs. A detailed landscape model brings Edmond’s world to life and shows what the traces in the rock reveal about an ecosystem on the brink of extinction.