Museum of Geology
Palais de Rumine, Place de la Riponne 6, Lausanne 1005
Phone: +41 (0)2 13 16 92 44 - Fax: +41 (0)2 13 16 92 44
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The Museum of Geology covers history from some 200 million years ago – at the end of the Triassic and the beginning of the Jurassic period – when Switzerland did not exist. The Alps had not yet been formed, and only a few beaches had emerged from the sea. Housed in the Florentine Palais de Rumine, the Museum of Geology houses the 16,000-year-old skeleton of a mammoth, one of the most complete ever found in Europe, and an enormous molar discovered in 1897, which came from a hippopotamus that grazed along the tropical river banks of Morges around 1.8 million years ago.
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