Staatliches Museum fur Naturkunde Stuttgart (or in English: State Museum for Natural History Stuttgart)

The State Museum of History in Stuttgart is broken down into two different museums. The Schloss Museum and the Museum am Lowentor. The Schloss Museum contains nothing but information and models of prehistoric animals. The Museum am Lowentor contains models and information on modern animals.

The Schloss Museum

When we first arrived at the Schloss Museum (name of dino museum) Shaelyn was greeted by three life size outdoor dinosaur models. She was in heaven. I have to admit that they were pretty cool myself.

Shaelyn enjoyed the inside of the dino museum also. Here are some of the pictures we took.

Wooly Mammoth

Real Wooly Mammoth Tusk

Wooly Mammoth Skeleton. It's much larger than it looks. It was so large that we had to be so far away from it for the whole skeleton to fit in the frame that the perspective was lost. I think you guys get the idea of how large it is though.

Prehistoric moose

Deinotherium ("terrible beast"), also called the Hoe tusker,[1] was a gigantic prehistoric relative of modern-day elephants that appeared in the Middle Miocene and continued until the Early Pleistocene. During that time it changed very little. In life it probably resembled modern elephants, except that its trunk was shorter, and it had downward curving tusks attached to the lower jaw.

For the life of me I can't remember what this thing is but is some sort of prehistoric fish. It was the most vicious of sea animals alive at it's time.

Mr. T-Rex please don't eat me!!

Museum am Lowentor

After we had finished visiting the Schloss Museum we ventured across the street to the Lowentor. Well, actually it was on the other side of the train tracks and we had to walk through the train yard. It was a little weird since the brochure stated that you could easily travel from museum to the other. I guess if you consider a 1 mile walk and a venture through the train yard easy then, yes, it was an easy walk from one museum to the other. Enough my frustrating long walk in the rain with a 6 year old.

I some how ended up with very few pictures of the Lowentor Museum. I could have sworn that I took more pictures. They had some really cool life size models of different parts of the jungle and all kinds of stuffed animals.  They also had a a life size model of a blue whale which Shaelyn thought was the coolest thing (she couldn't decide if she liked it or the dinosaur models better).

Blue Whale

Inside of a Blue Whale