Looking back in time

The exhibits devoted to the geology of southern Limburg take visitors on a journey through time, past tropical swamps dating from the Carboniferous 350 million years ago, and past the shallow sea which flooded southern Limburg at the end of the Cretaceous, some 70 million years ago. We cross the famous KT-boundary, which marks the moment in time when 60% of all species suddenly went extinct. Amongst these was the Maastricht Mosasaurus. The journey continues through the sand and gravel deposits and the brown coal layers of the Tertiary. Via the warmer and colder intervals of the last Ice Age, the Quaternary, we arrive at the oldest traces of human habitation in The Netherlands, left by the the Belvédère hunters. Our journey through time ends with the arrival of the first Romans in Maastricht: the earliest days of the city.

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