The Rügen Chalk Museum, the only one of its kind in Europe, is housed in an old chalk factory dating back to the time of traditional chalk mining in Rügen and houses many modern interactive exhibits, providing information about Rügen's chalk and fossils, the mining and processing of chalk past and present, and the use of chalk In industry, agriculture and environmental protection, the treatment of chalk and Cretaceous fossils, the development of the chalk coast and the impact of the Ice Age on the landscape of Rügen, visitors to the open-air museum exhibition can also learn about original equipment from historical chalk mining.