Bavarian State Archaeological Collection

The State Archaeological Collection (until 2000 Prehistoric State Collection ) in Munich is the central Bavarian National Museum of Prehistory and Early History.

History

On October 14, 1885, the Prehistoric Collection was established as an independent department of the Conservatory of the Palaeontological Collection (now the Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology and Geology ). On 7 February 1889, it was assumed directly as the Conservatorium of the Prehistoric Collection of the State General Conservatory of natural history collections in the Kingdom of Bavaria. Institute founder was the physiologist and anthropologist Johannes Ranke (1836-1916), a nephew of the historian Leopold von Ranke. The physicians and scientists had acquired a private teaching collection of originals and replicas of prehistoric objects from Bavaria as part of his teaching at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich, which he after he organized a successful exhibition from March 11 to April 7, 1885 the Bavarian State gave.

Ranke, who was appointed honorary director of the Prehistoric collection had, the Museum Society for Prehistoric antiquities of Bavaria created in early 1885. In the fall of 1885 the new Institute were incorporated the relevant holdings of the Royal Ethnographic Museum, and means of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences was in 1885 and 1886, a collection of important caves and hills grave finds from the Franconian Switzerland be purchased.

After the independence of Ranke's Institute in Munich there were three museums or museum departments who collected pre-and protohistoric finds in Bavaria. Johannes Ranke's plans for a unified solution were initially rejected. Only in 1927 decided the Historical Society of Upper Bavaria and the Bavarian National Museum in 1934 to leave their prehistoric stocks the State Special Museum. Beginning in 1939, could the stocks for which the museum rooms in the Old Academy (also Wilhelminum in Neuhauser Straße ) were destroyed in 1944, and which were then housed until 1975 in the Bavarian National Museum, will be presented no more the public in a permanent exhibition.

As of February 1976 designed museum building made ​​of reinforced concrete with rust forming Cor - were successively the different departments in one of the architects Helmut von Werz ( 1912-1990 ), Johann -Christoph Ottow, Erhard Bachmann ( b. 1939 ) and Michel Marx ( b. 1939 ) Ten steel plates are opened to the English Garden. Hans -Jörg waiter, head of the Prehistoric State Collection 1960-1984, had for many years - most recently in 1973 he initiated the Friends of the Bavarian Pre-and Early History - fought for modern archaeological Landesmuseum with its own building. On 11 May 2000, the museum was renamed the State Archaeological Collection under its conductor Ludwig Wamser (since 1995) at his own request: " At the opening of the national exhibition, the Romans between the Alps and the North Sea ' reasoned art Minister Zehetmair renaming so that the old name the museum no longer applicable characterize. "

Main focus

The museum documents the early history of Bavaria with the Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman period, as well as the early history of Bavaria with the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages. Thus, among many other works, the Middle finds from Speckberg in wet rock, shown from the Celtic oppidum of Manching and parts of a bath from the Roman settlement Tegelberg near Schwangau. In addition, the 500 year old dry mummy of an Inca girl from Peru or Chile, which has been held for 30 years until 2007 erroneously for the bog body of a 20- year-old girl from the 16th century from the Dachau moss, and some dug-out models from different times to see.

Restoration Workshops

The museum has its own work area for archaeological restoration to rescue finds from further deterioration and make for scientific processing or presentation to the museum to the public. The workshop performs beyond authenticity checks to question objects and exhibits. An additional focal point is the basic research on properties of ancient materials and today's study materials and preservatives.

Special

In addition to the permanent exhibition there is usually a year in cooperation with other museums presenting a special; Examples:

  • 2001: " magic, myth, power - Gold of Old and New World "
  • 2005: "The World of Byzantium "
  • 2006: " The last hours of Herculaneum "
  • 2008: "World Heritage Limes - Rome limit on Main"
  • 2009: " luxury and decadence. Roman life in the Gulf of Naples "
  • 2010: " People and Things"
  • 2013: " Ceramic Inspirations "

At irregular intervals, are presented with various partners national exhibitions:

Directors

Branch museums

Branches of the State Archaeological Collections are in:

  • Aichach, Wittelsbach Museum
  • Amberg, Oberpfalz Archaeological Museum of Amberg ( to 2012)
  • Bad Königshofen, Archaeological Museum
  • Bad Windsheim, archeology museum in the Franconian Open Air Museum of Bad Windsheim
  • Forchheim, Upper Franconia Archeology Museum
  • Green Forest, Castle Museum Grünwald
  • Landau an der Isar, Lower Bavarian Museum of Archaeology
  • Manching, Celtic Roman Museum
  • Mindelheim, Südschwäbisches Museum of Archaeology
  • Neuburg an der Donau, Archeology Museum Schloss Neuburg an der Donau
  • Neu-Ulm, Archaeological Museum Neu-Ulm
  • Passau, Roman museum fort Boiotro
  • White Castle White Castle Roman Museum

Location

  • Lerchenfeldstraße 2, 80538 Munich, behind the Bavarian National Museum on the southeast edge of the English Garden.
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