Look at the ground! This small piece of stainless steel stands for the “Quaternary” period. This is the most recent geological era, which began around two and a half million years ago.
If we wanted to represent the time that has passed since humans settled in our area, it would be less than a pinprick in this piece of metal.
A glance down the corridor shows the preceding geological eras. The band on the ground with the names of the geological eras depicts a small part of our geological history to scale.
By the end of the corridor, about 500 million years have passed. The entire history of the Earth is almost ten times as long, stretching back 4,600 million years!
Now walk through the corridor, through the time of stone! Along the way you’ll find informative facts about the ages of the Earth as well as sensational global and regional events.
By the way: The origins of granite can be found in the Carboniferous period, an epoch named after the coal that was formed then: the same coal we use for fuel.
When you reach the end of the corridor, please don’t turn back. Instead, take the turn-off into our time portal. See you then!
