Scenery and Climate Curve
View into the exhibition: the orange climate curve on the floor guides the visitors through the past six million years. Staggered landscape panoramas form the scenery for the changing fauna and flora. Above, huge pictures of clouds give the imagination of weather.
Thematic Walls and Reaction Rooms
View into the exhibition: behind sheets of foil 18 topics show in a chronological order how humans dealt and deal with climate and environment. Eight separate rooms with special design show single aspects like fire, nutrition, social behaviour or current climate protection.
Reaction Room: Nutrition – From the leg of a mammoth to astronaut’s food
For a long time humans just ate what nature provided. Later they began to produce and store food. Today we create our food by the help of food colouring, flavours and surrogates. For stays in life-threatening regions like space we even can compress everything necessary for life in small bars. Our dependence on the environment is dissolving more and more.
Thematic Wall: Neanderthals and Homo sapiens
These reconstructions show in which features the classic Neanderthal differed from modern humans: he had more massive bones, a more muscular built, heavy brow ridges, a flat forehead and a receding chin. However, between 120 000 and 50 000 years ago his tools hardly differed from those of modern humans.
Reaction Room: Current Climate Protection
Medical infusion bags show current efforts concerning climate and environment. People build solar houses, low-emission and low-fuel engines are developed. Governments support the building of wind energy plants. Environment-, nature protection-, human rights- and aid-organisations fight for the protection of climate and environment and for the people in poorer countries so that these do not have to exploit their environment for survival.
