The former department store palace accommodates an impressing Museum of Natural History including the 290 million-year-old "Petrified Forrest".
The former department store palace accommodates an impressing Museum of Natural History including the 290 million-year-old "Petrified Forrest" in the roof-covered atrium of the Tietz-House. It is part of one of the scientifically most valuable collections of fossil plants in the world. The museum shows about 7.000 petrified woods from the transparent cut to the extremely heavy trunk.
Contact
Museum für Naturkunde Chemnitz – Museum of Natural History Moritzstraße 20 09111 Chemnitz Deutschland
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