Bony Tales

Bones are fascinating. They tell us in a concrete way about animals from former times. A cat skeleton discovered in the cellar of a medieval stone-built house or a piglet skeleton revealed in excavations at the bottom of a well entice us to envisage the story of that particular animal. On the basis of research data we can ascertain an animal’s sex, size, state of health and age at death. Dents and scratches in the bones discovered often have to do with other animals' behaviour, and the most interesting stories have a link to human action or coexistence between animals and humans.

Bony Tales presents animal species which have a link to the museum area or which otherwise open up the history of animals. At the bone researcher’s table you can study animal bones. There is so much we can find out by studying bones!