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Ries Crater Museum

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Ries Crater Museum
Ries Crater Museum
Ries Crater Museum
Ries Crater Museum
Ries Crater Museum
Ries Crater Museum
Ries Crater Museum
Ries Crater Museum
Ries Crater Museum
Ries Crater Museum
Ries Crater Museum
Ries Crater Museum
Ries Crater Museum
Ries Crater Museum
Ries Crater Museum
Ries Crater Museum
Ries Crater Museum
Ries Crater Museum
Ries Crater Museum
Ries Crater Museum
Ries Crater Museum
Ries Crater Museum
Ries Crater Museum
Ries Crater Museum
Phone:
+49 9081 84710

Hours:
Sunday10am - 4:30pm
MondayClosed
Tuesday10am - 4:30pm
Wednesday10am - 4:30pm
Thursday10am - 4:30pm
Friday10am - 4:30pm
Saturday10am - 4:30pm


The Rieskrater Museum, sometimes known in English as the Ries Crater Museum, focuses on meteors and their collisions with Earth. The museum is housed in a 16th-century barn in Nördlingen, Germany which was part of the medieval city's center. The area is the location of a meteor's impact with Earth c. 15 million years ago and it might have been a double impact . It has been recognized as such since the early 1960s.The museum's collection includes a genuine moon rock from Apollo 16 on loan from NASA in return for using the Nördlingen crater for training the Apollo 14 astronauts due to its similarities to a moon crater.The museum is affiliated with the nearby Geopark Ries , whose mission is to protect the crater. The museum opened in May 1990 and received its millionth visitor on 15 December 2012.
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