Teylers Fossil Room II

Teylers Museum rooms

Fossil room II

The Fossil room II is one of two paleontological display rooms in Teylers Museum. The Fossil room II was built in 1885 as an extension of the first Fossil room I, under the direction of the architect Ad van der Steur Jr..

History

The Teylers Museum was originally opened in 1784 as a museum of science and arts. During the course of the next few decades the number of natural history objects grew, and under J.G.S. van Breda the Paleontological collection grew with the purchase of various collections based on his in-depth knowledge and personal network. Tiberius Winkler began the task of cataloguing, and was thus able to sort the collection into more or less important objects, and to display these, the idea of a new museum slowly gained ground with the directors.

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  Cabinet 1 with salamander and tortoise holotypes
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  Swiss naturalist Johann Jakob Scheuchzer's Homo diluvii testis in 1726
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  The Andrias scheuchzeri holotype from Oeningen Miocene, where the extra uncovering of arms was done by Georges Cuvier
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  Cabinet 2 with fish fossils, the personal specialty of Winkler
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  Cabinet 3
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  Cabinet 4 with fish
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  Cabinet 5
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  Cabinet 6 with nautilus shells
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  Cabinet 7
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  Cabinet 8
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  Cabinet 8 - detail with long fossil
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  Cabinet 9
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  Cabinet 10 with Lügensteine and insects in amber
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  Cabinet 11
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  Cabinet 12
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  Cabinet 13
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  Cabinet 14
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  Cabinet 15
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  Cabinet 16
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  Cabinet 17 with objects from the Jura
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  Cabinet 18
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  Cabinet 19
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  Cabinet 20 with Gomphotherium
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  Gomphotherium, Mioceen, Oeningen - identified by Georges Cuvier
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  The Teylers mosasaurus as published by Faujas de Saint-Fond in 1799
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  The Haarlem mosasaurus in its original cabinet
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  The central (low) cabinet houses the remains of the Petrus Camper collection, such as puppigerus

Further reading

• Teyler 1778-1978. Studies en bijdragen over Teylers Stichting naar aanleiding van het tweede eeuwfeest, Haarlem & Antwerp, 1978.

External links

• Teylers Museum collection database online (in Dutch)