Author: Lisa Verhagen

The impressive exhibition “1940 – 1945” showcases objects used during World War II. For example, it displays uniforms actually worn by Dutch, German, British, American, and Canadian soldiers, as well as a uniform of a Dutch SS member and even a striped suit worn by a political prisoner in a concentration camp. Historyland also presents […]

Left Hind Leg Original bones, heavily fossilized. The upper part, the femur, weighs 42 kilograms on its own! 3D-Printed Skull The teeth show that the Camarasaurus was a herbivore. The Camarasaurus lived during the Jurassic period, 156 to 146 million years ago. It was a sauropod dinosaur, meaning it belonged to the main group of […]

This is a forelimb of a Triceratops. A Triceratops was a large herbivorous dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period (66 million years ago) in what is now North America. It could grow up to nine meters long and reach a shoulder height of nearly three meters. It weighed approximately 12,000 kilograms. Its head […]

Replicas of the lower jaws, measuring 512 cm (!) in length, from a real baleen whale, one of the largest animals on Earth. These marine mammals can reach an enormous length of up to 30 meters and primarily feed on small crustaceans. They filter these from seawater by taking water into their mouths and then […]

Replica of a skull with lower jaws featuring sharp, serrated teeth. This life-sized cast is from an Allosaurus skeleton excavated at the Dinosaur National Monument in Utah and Colorado. This carnivorous dinosaur, measuring over 8.5 meters in length, was a true killing machine. Nearly complete skeletons of this dinosaur species have been unearthed in North […]

Around 350 million years ago, giants lived on Earth, such as the enormous dragonfly Meganeura monyi. This so-called “griffinfly” was the largest flying insect ever to exist, with a wingspan of over 70 cm—about the size of a crow. Imagine one of these flying toward you! During this period, you might also have encountered the […]

The megafauna of present-day South American countries Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina during the Ice Age was characterized by giant ground sloths and massive armored creatures called glyptodonts. These armored animals, related to modern armadillos, could grow over 1.5 meters long and weigh between 1,500 and 2,000 kilograms. They are now extinct. The name “glyptodont” means […]

Here you see a map of Western Europe in front of you. 20.000 years ago, at the end of the last ice-age, so much water was stored in the ice in Scotland and Scandinavia, that the sea level was 120 metres lower than it is now. It was possible for animals and people to travel […]