Siegsdorf Natural History and Mammoth Museum in Germany

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Siegsdorf Natural History and Mammoth Museum
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Local name	Südostbayerisches Naturkunde- und Mammut-Museum Siegsdorf
Type	museum
Size	650 m²
Opened for public	1995
Address	Auenstraße 2
Zip-code	83313
Place	Siegsdorf
Country	Germany
Website	Website
Telephone	+49866213316
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Owner

Zoological department
Elephant department
Record history
History of updates	2021-07-24

Latest document update	2021-07-24 13:29:25
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Description

Siegsdorf Natural History and Mammoth Museum, located at Auenstraße 2, in Siegsdorf, Germany , opened for public in 1995.

Taxidermy specimens

Siegsdorf Natural History and Mammoth Museum has in its collection 1 elephantine museum specimens with records in this database:

(Measurements of teeth and body parts follow the system described by Maglio (1973; P = plate number, L = length, W = width, H = height, LF = lamellar frequency)

Siegsdorfer Mammut Accession nr: . Received: ⚪ Siegsdorfer Mammut (fossil)
Species: Woolly Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius)
* Born ca 45 000 years ago at Europe unspecified location † Dead ca 45 000 years ago at Gerhartsreiter Graben
Death: Death reason: unknown (N/A)
Discovered as fossil 1975 by Bernard Bredow and Robert Omelanowsky at Gerhartsreiter Graben,
Body, bone or dental material: complete skeleton, Excavated 1985,

Comments / picturesThe Siegsdorfer Naturkunde- und Mammut-Museum (Siegsdorf Natural History and Mammoth Museum) owes its origin to the discovery of 45,000 year old mammoth bones. The bones were found in the Gerhartsreiter Graben, not far from Siegsdorf. Since its opening in 1995 more than a million people have visited the museum to see the largest and best preserved mammoth Skeleton in the whole of Europe.

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Recommended Citation

Koehl, Dan (2025). Siegsdorf Natural History and Mammoth Museum, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=3343. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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