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title: "Museum für Naturkunde Chemnitz – Museum of Natural History"
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description: "The former department store palace accommodates an impressing Museum of Natural History including the 290 million-year-old \"Petrified Forrest\" in the roof-covered atrium of the Tietz-House. It is part of one of the scientifically most valuable collections of fossil plants in the world. The museum shows about 7.000 petrified woods from the transparent cut to the extremely heavy trunk.  "
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Museum für Naturkunde Chemnitz – Museum of Natural History
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The former department store palace accommodates an impressing Museum of Natural History including the 290 million-year-old "Petrified Forrest" in the roof-covered atrium of the Tietz-House. It is part of one of the scientifically most valuable collections of fossil plants in the world. The museum shows about 7.000 petrified woods from the transparent cut to the extremely heavy trunk.

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Accessibility

**Saxony Barrier-Free**

**Additional access information for wheelchair users and persons with reduced mobility:**

- The whole exhibition is easily accessible for wheelchair users
- Guided tours for wheelchair users
- Natural history seminars for guests with learning difficulties
- Creative design with natural materials
- Seminars for blind and visually impaired guests
- Exhibits that can be touched, smelled, heard, tasted, looked at

Parking

- indicated disabled parking space available

Entrance to the facility / paths within the facility

- Door width min. 90 cm
- Stepless access (max. 3 cm) or ramp

Lift

- Door width min. 90 cm
- Stepless access (max. 3 cm) or ramp
- Floor area of lift min. 110x140 cm

Accessible toilet

- Door width min. 90 cm
- Stepless access (max. 3 cm) or ramp
- Movement area in front of toilet bowl min. 150x150 cm
- Area left or right of the toilet bowl min. 90 cm
- Hinged hand rails at the side of the toilet bowl provided

Additional aids / offers

- Aids / offers for blind and visually impaired persons

Additional aids / offers

- Aids / offers for persons with learning and mental disabilities

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Author

Tourismus Marketing Gesellschaft Sachsen mbHBautzner Straße 45/47

01099 Dresden

Organization

Tourismus Marketing Gesellschaft Sachsen mbH

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Contact

Moritzstraße 20

09111 Chemnitz