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Neanderthal Museum

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Neanderthal Museum 20060318
Neanderthal Museum 20060318

The Neanderthal Museum is a museum in Mettmann, Germany. Located at the site of the first Neanderthal man discovery in the Neandertal, it features an exhibit centered on human evolution. The museum was constructed in 1996 to a design by the architects Zamp Kelp, Julius Krauss and Arno Brandlhuber and draws about 170,000 visitors per year. The museum also includes an archaeological park on the original discovery site, a Stone Age workshop, as well as an art trail named "human traces". All signs in the museum as well as the audio guide offered by the museum are available in German and English.

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Neanderthal-Museum (Neanderthalmuseum;Neandertalmuseum;Neandertal-Museum)

Talstraße 300
40822
North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Neandertal (valley)
Neandertal (valley)

The Neandertal (, also US: , German: [neˈʔandɐtaːl]; sometimes called "the Neander Valley" in English) is a small valley of the river Düssel in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located about 12 km (7.5 mi) east of Düsseldorf, the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia. The valley lies within the limits of the towns of Erkrath and Mettmann. In August, 1856, the area became famous for the discovery of Neanderthal 1, one of the first specimens of Homo neanderthalensis to be found. The Neandertal was originally a limestone canyon widely known for its rugged scenery, waterfalls and caves. However, industrial quarrying during the 19th and 20th centuries removed most of the limestone and dramatically changed the shape of the valley. It was during such a quarrying operation that the bones of the original Neanderthal man were found in a cave known as Kleine Feldhofer Grotte. Neither the cave nor the cliff in which the bones were located still exist. During the 19th century, the valley was called Neanderhöhle (Neander's Cave) and, after 1850, Neanderthal. It was named after Joachim Neander, a 17th-century German pastor. Neander is the Graeco-Roman translation of his family name Neumann; both names mean "new man". Neumann lived in nearby Düsseldorf and loved the valley for giving him the inspiration for his compositions. Former names of the gorge were Das Gestein (The Boulders) and Das Hundsklipp (Cliff of dogs, perhaps in the sense of "Cliff of Beasts"). In 1901, an orthographic reform in Germany changed the spelling of Thal (valley) to Tal. Scientific names, such as Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens neanderthalensis for Neanderthal remained unchanged, because the laws of taxonomy retain the original spelling at the time of naming. However, Neanderthal station never changed its name to conform with the new German orthography and the modern Neanderthal Museum retains the original spelling.

Mettmann Zentrum station
Mettmann Zentrum station

Mettmann Zentrum ("Mettmann centre") station is a Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn station in the town of Mettmann in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It was opened in 1953 on the last section of the Düsseldorf-Derendorf–Dortmund Süd railway from Mettmann station (now Mettmann Stadtwald station) to the Rhenish Railway Company's Düsseldorf station. It was opened in 1953 as Mettmann West station and given its current name on 26 September 1999.The station is served by Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn line S 28 at 20-minute intervals. The station is served by 11 bus routes, SB68 (Dornap – Wieden – Wuppertal, every 60 minutes), O10 (Mettmann Süd – Stadtwald + Kaldenberg – Metzkausen, every 60 minutes), O11 (Metzkausen – Hasselbeckstr + Friedhof Lindenheide, every 60 minutes), O13 (Stadtwald + Danziger Str – Jubiläumsplatz, every 20 minutes), 738 (Gerresheim Krankenhaus – Dreherstr – Düsseldorf Hbf, every 20–60 minutes), 741 (Neanderthal – Hochdahl – Hilden – Südfriedhof, every 20–60 minutes), 742 (Gruiten – Haan – Thienhausen, every 20–60 minutes), 743 (Neanderthal – Erkrath, every 60 minutes), 745 (Dornap – Wieden – Vohwinkel, every 60 minutes), 745 (Dornap – Wieden – Wuppertal, every 60 minutes), 746 (Wülfrath – Tönisheide – Velbert, every 20 minutes) and 749 (Metzkausen – Ratingen – Kaiserswerth, every 60 minutes). All are operated by Rheinbahn or in conjunction with Kreisverkehrsgesellschaft Mettmann (741, 742, 743, 746 and 749).