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Neanderthal Museum

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Neanderthal Museum
Neanderthal Museum. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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The Neanderthal Museum is a museum in Mettmann, Germany. It was established in 1996. Located at the site of the first Neanderthal man discovery in the Neandertal, it features an exhibit centered on human evolution. The museum was constructed in 1996 to a design by the architects Zamp Kelp, Julius Krauss and Arno Brandlhuber and draws about 170,000 visitors per year. It includes an archaeological park on the original discovery site, a Stone Age workshop, as well as an art trail named "human traces".

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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