Neanderthal Museum Verwaltung

Name

Neanderthal Museum Verwaltung

Legal name

Stiftung Neanderthal Museum

Website

https://neanderthal.de

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cultural Heritage Museum

NAICS

Museums (712110), Historical Sites (712120)

akta.pro primary industry

History Museums (THAJADAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Archaeological Sites & Heritage Interpretation Centers (THAJADAG), Museums & Heritage Sites (History, Science, Specialty) (BPAGAHAA), History, Heritage & Museum-Focused Study Tours (THAKAGAN)

Keywords

• Human evolution museum
• Guided museum tours
• Prehistoric cultural heritage
• Stone age workshops
• Museum event venue rental

Headquarters

HQ city

Mettmann

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Admission Tickets: Entry fees for museum and discovery site access for adults (from €11.90) and children (from €8.08) with 15% family discount
2. Guided Tours: Guided tours through permanent and special exhibitions, outdoor tours, family tours priced from €59-82 plus admission
3. Workshops: Archaeotechnical and anthropological workshops including Stone Age Lamp (€5/person min €75-95), archery, fire-making, and craft workshops
4. Event Venue Rental: Museum rental for corporate events, birthday parties, conferences. Packages include Museum at Night (from €38/person), Meeting & Archery (from €21/person), Conference package (from €16/person)
5. Museum Shop: Merchandise including baby mammoth Tinka plush toys, Stone Age tools, gift vouchers
6. Touring Exhibitions: Rental of traveling exhibitions to other institutions through media library

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

The Neanderthal Museum is a cultural heritage institution operating at the original 1856 Neanderthal discovery site in Mettmann, Germany, offering interactive exhibitions on 7 million years of human evolution, complemented by guided tours, hands-on Stone Age workshops, school programs, corporate event venues, and museum shop merchandise. It serves individual visitors, families, school groups, and corporate clients through a multilingual (German, English, Dutch) facility and online e-shop.

Product overview

The Neanderthal Museum is a cultural heritage institution offering a comprehensive visitor experience centered on human evolution and Stone Age history. The core product is the main museum with its permanent exhibition 'Zeitreise erleben' exploring 7 million years of human history, supplemented by rotating special exhibitions such as '2 Millionen Jahre Migration'. The museum operates on a platform-plus-modules architecture, where the core museum admission serves as the foundation, with numerous add-on modules including guided tours, educational workshops (school programs, Stone Age birthday parties), event location rental, company team events, and an online shop. Additional experiences include the outdoor Erlebniswelt Neandertal with the Höhlenblick adventure tower and Ice Age Animal Park.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Neanderthal Museum (Main Exhibition)

Quantifiable outcome

• Family discount of 15% on admission
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• NeanderlandminorGTM or Marketing PartnerRegional tourism partner network for the Neandertal region promoting local attractions and visitor experiences.
• Ice Age EuropecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEuropean network of Ice Age heritage sites and museums, facilitating cross-border cooperation and shared research on Paleolithic heritage.
• Stiftung HABRISminorGTM or Marketing PartnerLocal foundation supporting heritage and cultural initiatives in the region.
• NeagesminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner organization supporting museum initiatives and programs.
• Service Q DeutschlandminorGTM or Marketing PartnerTourism service partner for the NRW region.
• dein-nrw-tourismus.deminorGTM or Marketing PartnerOfficial NRW tourism portal partner for regional marketing and visitor promotion.
• Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (National Museum of Antiquities, Netherlands)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint 'Stone Age mysteries in stereo' tour program combining Neanderthal Museum (Germany) and Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (Netherlands), featuring discoveries like Krijn and Mr. N from both countries.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Senckenberg Naturmuseum: Frankfurt natural history museum with strong human-evolution and prehistoric-life exhibits including dinosaur halls. Comparable as a major German natural-history museum targeting families and schools with hands-on interactive exhibits in the same regional catchment.
• Musée National de Préhistoire (Les Eyzies): French national prehistory museum in the Dordogne, located in a UNESCO-flagged prehistoric region with original cave sites. Comparable as a single-site European museum dedicated to prehistory and Neanderthal-era humans, with similar interpretive scope and family/school audiences.
• Musée de l'Homme: Paris-based anthropology and human-evolution museum operated under the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Comparable as a European museum dedicated specifically to human evolution, prehistory, and Neanderthals with interactive exhibits and family programming.
• Dinosaurier Museum Münchehagen: German outdoor prehistoric-themed museum featuring life-size dinosaur sculptures and hands-on paleontology activities. Comparable as a single-site German prehistoric museum targeting families and school groups with outdoor discovery and workshop programming.
• Krapina Neanderthal Museum: Modern museum at the Krapina Neanderthal site in Croatia, opened 2010 and built around a major late-19th-century Neanderthal fossil discovery. Directly comparable as a single-site museum at an authentic Neanderthal discovery location with school, family, and tourist audiences.
• Gibraltar National Museum: Site museum at Gorham's Cave, a UNESCO World Heritage Neanderthal site. Comparable as a small single-site museum built around an authentic Neanderthal discovery location with school and tourist audiences, including guided cave tours.
• Rijksmuseum van Oudheden: National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, Netherlands — a direct peer that runs a joint "Stone Age mysteries in stereo" tour program with the Neanderthal Museum featuring cross-border Neanderthal-era finds. Comparable as a national archaeology museum focused on prehistory with school, family, and corporate audiences.

Broad incumbents

• Natural History Museum, London: One of the world's leading natural history museums, covering human evolution, dinosaurs, and earth sciences. Comparable for human-evolution content and family/school programming, but operates at much larger scale and broader scientific scope than the Neanderthal Museum's niche focus.
• Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History: US national museum with extensive human-origins programming including the Hall of Human Origins. Comparable for human-evolution exhibit design and family/school programming, though significantly larger and broader in scientific scope.

Regional players

• LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn: Regional archaeology and cultural-history museum operated by the Rhineland Regional Association in Bonn. Comparable as a publicly supported German regional museum with archaeological collections, family programming, and school-tour offerings in the same NRW catchment.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks1 record

Key highlights2 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Neandertal1
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@NeanderthalMuseum
• Facebookfacebook.com/neanderthalmuseum
• Instagraminstagram.com/neanderthalmuseum
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/neanderthal-museum-verwaltung

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles22 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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