The "BROMACKER lab - Discover prehistory!" has opened its doors! The new interactive format in the exhibition hall of Friedenstein Castle offers new insights into the evlution of early land vertebrates and invites interested people of all ages to become researchers themselves and actively discover the geological heritage in the region. The offer is free of charge.

The new exhibition format is an important milestone in the BROMACKER cooperation project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Its aim is to link Top-level research and knowledge transfer. To this end, the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin - Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity, the Friedenstein Castle Foundation Gotha, the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the UNESCO Global Geopark Thuringia Inselsberg - Drei Gleichen are working together.

Maria Schulz, curator of the BROMACKER lab and science communicator in the project, has created an interface between the two with the lab: "Due to its experimental character, the BROMACKER lab offers the opportunity to experience and participate in the research in the project live. I look forward to many interested visitors and to sharing the fascination of our work.

Not far from the unique Bromacker fossil site between Georgenthal and Tambach-Dietharz, the BROMACKER lab has been created as a place where those interested can follow the path of a fossil - from its discovery to its preparation, from its exploration to its presentation. Visitors of the lab will be able to meet the famous early saurian skeletons and pick up the excavation tools themselves. A hologram showcase will allow them to experience a world that existed some 290 million years ago, and digital and analogue formats will give them a playful approach to topics such as the formation of fossils and the development of the earth through the various geological eras.

The BROMACKER lab is not a static exhibition. It is updated several times a year so that visitors can participate in the latest research results from the project. In the lab's exhibition workshop, they can take part in special activities when the geoscientific preparator Pia Kain prepares new fossil finds with a pneumatic graver.

The Bromacker is there for everyone: a digital glossary offers the opportunity to get to know scientific terms, accompanying booklets in easy language and for children create further access points to approach the contents of the Lab. Further low-threshold offers are planned with workshops, holiday offers and museum events.

The exhibition at a glance

„BROMACKER lab – Discover prehistory!"

Exhibition Hall of Friedenstein Castle

The BROMACLER lab has new opening hours

New opening hours will apply to the BROMACKER lab from 1 January 2025: The interactive format in the exhibition hall will be open at weekends, during holidays, on public holidays and bridge days, for Friedenstein Foundation events and during the excavation period in June 2025 during normal museum opening hours. The lab is closed from Tuesdays to Fridays, but guided tours for school classes or other groups can still be booked on these days of the week (email vermittlung@friedenstein-stiftung.de). Research assistant Dr Tom Hübner is also available for expert tours on request.

The offer is free of charge.

service@stiftung-friedenstein.de

www.friedensteine.de/artikel/bromacker-lab

www.stiftung-friedenstein.de

www.friedensteine.de (new website)

Here you will find further interesting links to the BROMACKER project and the BROMACKER lab (German language only).

https://www.friedensteine.de/artikel/der-bromacker

https://www.friedensteine.de/artikel/bromacker-lab

https://www.oscar-am-freitag.de/oscaramfreitagtv/ursaurier/

With the kind permission of the editors of "Oskar am Freitag".