(Sources of information: Wikipedia [Geological-Palaeontological Museum, Mineralogical Museum ], website Geomuseum [museum, history, exhibition , education]) (Sources in German)

The Geomuseum is located between the Domplatz (Cathedral Square) and the Ägidiimarkt directly opposite the LWL Museum of Art and Culture. It belongs to the University of Münster and displays fossils, rocks and minerals from a wide variety of geological eras.

The collection of the museum consists mostly of findings from the Westphalian region. For example, you can see fossil remains of fish, corals, seashells and mammals from different ages such as the Cretaceous or the Ice Age. The centerpiece is the skeleton of a mammoth, which was found in Ahlen in 1910 and is completely preserved. In other exhibitions you can explore the world of rocks and minerals as well as the geological history of Westphalia.

In addition to the exhibition program, there are numerous offers for children and young people. Daycare groups can learn about scientific working methods in workshops with rocks, crystals and minerals. School classes can explore the mammoth from Ahlen and its finding history in school cooperations with the museum or learn all about the structure of the earth. There is also a mobile laboratory for families to explore earth science topics such as examining rocks or fossils with a microscope.

The Geomuseum traces its origins to the Geological-Paleontological Museum and the Mineralogical Museum, which were founded together in 1824 as the "Museum mineralogicum et zoologicum". Both museums were to hold their collections for the university, which at the end of the 19th century comprised 30,000 objects. In 1880, both moved to the Landberg Curia, a three-winged baroque building.

During the Second World War, only the building of the Gelogical-Paleontological Museum was damaged. However, its collection had been moved out before the war and thus remained undamaged. The reconstruction and restoration of the exhibits were completed in 1956. In the meantime, the Mineralogical Museum had moved to another building, which was completely destroyed during the war. In 2007, the Geological-Paleontological Museum and the Mineralogical Museum were merged to form the Geomuseum. The Landberg Curia was then rebuilt to display the collections of both museums.

For more information about the Geomuseum, its exhibition program and other offerings, please visit the museum's website (website only available in German).