Teylers Fossil Room II

Teylers Museum rooms

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..

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.

Cabinet 1 with salamander and tortoise holotypes

Swiss naturalist Johann Jakob Scheuchzer's Homo diluvii testis in 1726

The Andrias scheuchzeri holotype from Oeningen Miocene, where the extra uncovering of arms was done by Georges Cuvier

Cabinet 2 with fish fossils, the personal specialty of Winkler

Cabinet 3

Cabinet 4 with fish

Cabinet 5

Cabinet 6 with nautilus shells

Cabinet 7

Cabinet 8

Cabinet 8 - detail with long fossil

Cabinet 9

Cabinet 10 with Lügensteine and insects in amber

Cabinet 11

Cabinet 12

Cabinet 13

Cabinet 14

Cabinet 15

Cabinet 16

Cabinet 17 with objects from the Jura

Cabinet 18

Cabinet 19

Cabinet 20 with Gomphotherium

Gomphotherium, Mioceen, Oeningen - identified by Georges Cuvier

The Teylers mosasaurus as published by Faujas de Saint-Fond in 1799

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