The Heidelberg Man jaw
A cast of a fossil hundreds of thousands of years old, found near the town.
If the town's history interests you or you want shelter on a wet day, yes — and the ticket is very cheap. If you only have one day in Heidelberg, the castle, the Philosophers' Way and the old town come first.
Limited. The main panels are German with some English in the larger sections, but much of the detail is German only. There is nothing in Arabic.
A jaw fossil found in 1907 in a quarry near Heidelberg, which at the time was among the oldest known human remains in Europe. The species was named after the town, which is why it carries its name in anthropology.
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The Kurpfälzisches Museum is Heidelberg's city museum, housed in an eighteenth-century baroque palace on the main street. The building itself is handsome, with one of the finest façades on that street. The collection brings together archaeology, art and the town's history. Its best-known piece is a cast of the jaw of "Heidelberg Man", a fossil hundreds of thousands of years old found near the town, which was among the oldest human remains in Europe when it was discovered. There is also a carved wooden altarpiece from the sixteenth century, and paintings of Heidelberg from the nineteenth, when the Romantics discovered it.
A cast of a fossil hundreds of thousands of years old, found near the town.
A finely carved sixteenth-century wooden altarpiece — one of the museum's key works.
Nineteenth-century pictures of the castle and town as the Romantic painters saw them.
An eighteenth-century palace with one of the handsomest façades on the main street.
Hauptstraße 97, 69117 Heidelberg