Osteological Collection

The object inventory serves primarily as a research collection but is also used for teaching. In addition to an extensive collection of human fossil casts, it also includes the skeletal remains of about 11,000 individuals from the Paleolithic to the beginning of the twentieth century, mainly from Baden-Württemberg. Rare pieces include finds such as the Stone Age skull nest from the Hohlenstein-Stadel (photo), the spout of a plague corpse from the church of St. Dionysius in Esslingen dating between 1275 and 1550, and several Egyptian mummies. A small exhibition of objects from the fields of anatomy and disease-related changes in bones serves the education of students. Currently, the holdings of the collection are being digitized with the help of 3D scanners and CT scans, as well as researched for their provenance.

To the collection in the eMuseum (selection)