The Ries Crater Museum
The Rieskrater Museum, sometimes known in English as the Ries Crater Museum, focuses on meteors and their collisions with Earth. The museum is housed in a 16th-century barn in Nördlingen, which was part of the medieval city's center.
In the 1970 the astronauts of NASA´s Apollo 14 and 17 lunar missions visited the Ries for field training and for making themselves familiar with their geological research work on the moon, which is covered with numerous craters.
From then until now the Ries has been regarded as one of the best-preserved and best-explored large craters on earth. Honouring its importance, the town of Nördlingen has established the unique "Rieskrater Museum", one of the most modern geological museums in Germany. There visitors can learn more about the history of the Ries event and how the landscape has evolved into its present-day form.
In the 1970 the astronauts of NASA´s Apollo 14 and 17 lunar missions visited the Ries for field training and for making themselves familiar with their geological research work on the moon, which is covered with numerous craters.
From then until now the Ries has been regarded as one of the best-preserved and best-explored large craters on earth. Honouring its importance, the town of Nördlingen has established the unique "Rieskrater Museum", one of the most modern geological museums in Germany. There visitors can learn more about the history of the Ries event and how the landscape has evolved into its present-day form.
Reference: The city of Nördlingen, Christopher Hilke, Dr. Helen Kearns and Rieskrater-Museum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rieskrater_Museum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rieskrater_Museum