A small group sits in front of a tree in the forecourt of the Hohentübingen Palace Museum

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Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT Ancient Cultures

Museum der Universität Tübingen MUT Alte Kulturen, Burgsteige 11, 72070 Tübingen

Among the most famous exhibits of the "Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT Ancient Cultures" at Hohentübingen Castle are the "Vogelherd figures". They are among the oldest works of art known to mankind and are exhibits of the UNESCO World Heritage "Ice Age Art".

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Among the outstanding exhibits are the original exhibits of the UNESCO World Heritage "Ice Age Art". UNESCO declared six caves in the Swabian Alb and the Ice Age art found there a World Heritage Site in 2017. This is because around 40,000 years ago, people carved very lifelike figures of mammoths, wild horses, cave lions and other animals out of mammoth ivory here. Most of the original finds from the Ice Age caves can be seen at Hohentübingen Palace, including the charming "Vogelherdpferdchen" and the newly discovered fragment of a flute made from griffon vulture bone.