The Mineral Show offers huge fun for all the family as a hands-on and experience show with event character alongside fascinating special exhibits and sale items.
Who already has a workshop at home for soapstone carving, or the good fortune to have a gold claim just outside their own front door? The motto is touching with your hands, not just looking with your eyes. Natural treasures in the form of cracked geodes, prepared fossils or gold dust are popular 'trophies', which children love to take home with them.
Completely new for this year: fossil splitting with the dinosaur expert Ben Pabst and the "Back to the Stone Age" event with famous survival trainer Thomas Patzleiner from SWR-Fernsehen.