Museum of Natural History Vienna
Grand Ringstrasse palace of natural sciences holding some thirty million specimens, from meteorites to a Paleolithic figurine.
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This guide to the Museum of Natural History in Vienna traces a railway worker's discovery of a small limestone figure carved some thirty thousand years ago, unearthed above the Danube in 1908. It follows the archaeologists whose names entered the history books afterward, and the puzzle of a stone that came from hundreds of kilometers away. Look for the figure's own small, dark cabinet inside the museum.
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