Exhibition

River Kocher, a tributary of River Neckar has deeply incised into the Triassic rocks of the Southwest-German cuesta landscape – at Ingelfingen up to 200 meters. The morphology of the valley reflects the change of the subsequent rocks. The wide valley floodplain has been deepened into the easily erodible claystones of …

Unlike most other fossil museums the Muschelkalk Museum Ingelfingen is focused on rocks, minerals, and fossils of the Central European Middle Triassic and presents these in a wide variety. The Muschelkalk Gallery shows original samples of sedimentary rocks and informs visitors of the subdivision in lithostratigraphic formations and biostratigraphic zones …

The Muschelkalk yields important mineral raw materials for the industrial and building sectors. Lower and Upper Muschelkalk limestones are exploited in countless quarries and processed to bulk material like gritting stones and raw material for cement production. Dimension stones are used in building industry and landscaping. High-end quality stones like …

A special display is dedicated to sea urchins and other living and fossil echinoderms. This exhibition exemplifies biology, ecology, and phylogeny of these marine organisms. The specimens arranged according to the echinoid systematics assemble the most important sea urchin groups and also extant crinoids from the Caribean.

In the staircase of the museum the historical Ingelfingen deep borehole is staged. On search of black coal the boring was sunken between 1857 and 1863 to a depth of 815 m. However, no coal was found but information about the subsurface geological strata. Below the almost 400 m thick …

Hardly any other museum presents an equally detailed Lower Keuper exhibition as the Muschelkalk Museum. This is due to Werner Kugler from Crailsheim who donated his excellent collection of temnospondyl amphibians, reptiles, and other fossils to the Alberti Foundation. In eight large display cabinets and some additional show cases spectacular …