Opgeraapt Opgevist Uitgehakt

The journey runs from sandstone 500 million years old from Drenthe and sharks and sea urchins 70 million years old from the Limburg Cretaceous, to skeleton parts of the woolly mammoth, sabre-toothed cat and beluga from the North Sea. Also on show are corals and trilobites over 400 million years old, plus fossil leaves, tree trunks, roots and insects from the Carboniferous.

Reptile bones and footprints from a quarry near Winterswijk are 230 million years old. The showpiece is an early nineteenth-century cast of the Mosasaurus, whose original fossil was taken from Maastricht to Paris by the French army in 1795.