Artis Royal Zoo artis geological museum

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once artis had a geological museum that stood at the current artis plein i think the place between micropia the european wet land aviary and the grote museum is called
i search for both information on the species and specimen exhibited and photos

i can remember
potential confusion included
an entire irish elk skeleton
an entire stegosaurus skeleton
a triceratops skull
a single mammoth tusk
some part of a steller manatee
a rhino like ungulate skull
a raptor like entire skeleton
a complete flying dinosaur skeleton
 
The following specimen are mentioned and illustrated in the zoo guides of the 1990's and 2000's:

- fossils of wood, corals, snails, sea urchins, trilobites, ammonites and fish
- insects in amber stone
- skeleton of a dromaeosaur Velociraptor
- skeleton of Stegosaurus
- skull of Triceratops
- fossil of Archaeopteryx
- skeleton of a Late Eocene / Early Oligocene dugong
- skeleton of an Irish elk
- skull of a extinct walruss
- skull of Brontops
- skull of Australopithecus
- skull of Neanderthaler

Next to these, I remember a skeleton of Dimetrodon and a fossil collection of Pleistocene mammals of the island Samos.

Some were original founds, like the fossils of Samos and probably the fossils of invertebrates and fish. Many were casts I believe, like the complete skeletons of the dinosaurs and Dimetrodon. The fossil of Archaeopteryx for sure wasn't an original, as it was the famous Berlin specimen.
 
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It was a small building, and large proportion of exhibits were casts and models, and it was meant to illustrate general geology and paleontology. I remember a model of a muscled leg of a dinosaur in the staircase (the building had two or more stories). I think there were also Brazilian fossil fishes.
 
I remember that on one of my visits to Amsterdam Zoo, the Artis Geological Museum staged a very interesting temporary exhibition about dodos.
 
When was the geology museum closed? I wanted to see the museum in 2013 but I wasn't able to see it open on the map.
 
The museum also had a small movie room with a few chairs and a big television (not 100% sure), where you could watch a documentary about dinosaurs. At least this is what I can remember.

AWP said:
fossils of wood, corals, snails, sea urchins, trilobites, ammonites and fish
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These were exhibited on the first floor right?

Wasn't there also a skull of a sabertooth (or part of it) in the museum?
 
JurassicMax said:
These were exhibited on the first floor right?

Wasn't there also a skull of a sabertooth (or part of it) in the museum?
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I don't know. For some reason I hardly visited the museum in all those years, probably because it was in a area of the zoo that was off all my main walking routes.
 
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