Paläon, Schöningen

The Schöningen Research Museum is a visitor center and museum in Schöningen in the district of Helmstedt, which serves primarily to exhibit the Schöningen spears and to show the living and environmental conditions at their time of origin, about 300,000 years ago. It is located in the immediate vicinity of the site where the spears were found in the former Schöningen open-cast lignite mine.

The facility was opened on June 24, 2013 under the name paläon, also known as the Schöninger Speere Research and Experience Center. Operated by a limited liability company, paläon closed on June 30, 2019, due to heavy financial losses and became the responsibility of the Lower Saxony State Office for the Preservation of Monuments on July 1, 2019.