Drawing on its incredible paleontology collection, Colmar's Museum of Natural History and Ethnography presents a new temporary exhibition packed with fossils. Each of the specimens in the exhibition has been carefully selected from the museum's 18,600 rocks and fossils to tell the story of plant evolution over nearly 2.7 billion years. A plunge into the past to discover how plants transformed the planet, how they conquered terra firma to propel themselves ever higher into the light and ever further across continents.
Gigantic fossil trunks stand side by side with pieces of rare finesse, such as this fossil leaf, whose veins can still be made out and which seems delicately placed on the rock, or this flower, preserved in Burmese amber for almost 100 million years...
The exhibition is accompanied by an immersive Escape Game in which visitors are plunged into a dusty 18th-century cabinet to discover the basics of botany and help a famous botanical doctor identify a mysterious cure-all plant...
Gigantic fossil trunks stand side by side with pieces of rare finesse, such as this fossil leaf, whose veins can still be made out and which seems delicately placed on the rock, or this flower, preserved in Burmese amber for almost 100 million years...
The exhibition is accompanied by an immersive Escape Game in which visitors are plunged into a dusty 18th-century cabinet to discover the basics of botany and help a famous botanical doctor identify a mysterious cure-all plant...
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