Bavaria
Upper Bavaria
Eichstätt

Jura Museum

The Jura Museum, a museum located in castle in the town of , Germany, is a natural history museum that has an extensive exhibit of Jurassic fossils from the quarries of and surroundings, including marine reptiles, pterosaurs, and one specimen of the early bird Archaeopteryx.
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  • Opening hours:
    April—September: Tuesday—Sunday 9:00 AM—6:00 PM
    October—March: Tuesday—Sunday 10:00 AM—4:00 PM
    January 1st: closed
    November 1st: closed
    December 24th—25: closed
    December 31st: closed
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: natural history museum at the Willibaldsburg in Eichstätt, Bavaria, Germany
  • Also known as: “Jura-Museum”, “Jura-Museum Eichstaett”, and “Jura-Museum Eichstätt”
  • Address: Burgstraße 19, Eichstätt, 85072

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Museum für Ur- und Frühgeschichte and Willibaldsburg.

Museum
Photo: Chrisi1964, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Castle
Photo: Joe MiGo, CC0.
The is a spur castle, built around the year 1353, in in . Until the middle of the 18th century, it was the representative castle and seat of Eichstätt's prince-bishops.

Brewery
is the sole brewery located in , . The brewery was founded in 1492 by Wilhelm von Reichenau. Hofmühl is recognized as an eco-friendly brewery and saves about 60% of its yearly energy consumption through the "Merlin" beer technique and solar energy. is situated 190 metres south of Jura Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Marienstein and Rebdorf.

Village
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Jura Museum

Latitude
48.89501° or 48° 53′ 42″ north
Longitude
11.16861° or 11° 10′ 7″ east
Elevation
464 metres (1,522 feet)
Operator
Bavarian Natural History Collections
Open location code
8FWHV5W9+2C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 297076215
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Geo­Names ID
11746140
Wiki­data ID
Q458586
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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Ukrainian—“Jura Museum” goes by many names.
  • Dutch: “Jura Museum”
  • Finnish: “Jura Museum”
  • French: “Jura Museum”
  • German: “Jura-Museum Eichstätt”
  • German: “Jura-Museum”
  • Kazakh: “Юра музейі”
  • Russian: “Юрский музей”
  • Swedish: “Jura Museum”
  • Ukrainian: “Юрський музей”
  • “Jura Museum”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Jura Museum”. Photo: Aconcagua, CC BY-SA 3.0.