University of Tartu Museum of Geology |
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The history of the UT Museum of Geology dates back to 1802, when the Cabinet of Natural History was created in the reopened university. The museum displays minerals, meteorites with different compositions, rocks and fossils from all geologic eras and periods. The museum also offers a comprehensive exposition on Estonian paleontology and geology and provides an overview of human evolution. Visitors can wonder at a 40,000-year-old mammoth skull and a two-metre-long fossilised placoderm that was alive approximately 390 million years ago (in the Devonian period), found in the Aruküla caves near Tartu.
The museum is open to visitors from Wednesday to Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Telephone: +372 737 5839
Fax: +372 737 5836
E-mail: mare.isakar@ut.ee
www.ut.ee/BGGM
46 Vanemuise St., Tartu 51014