Museum für Abgüsse Klassischer Bildwerke

The Museum of casts of classical sculptures is a built in connection with the establishment of a Chair of Classical Archaeology at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich in 1869 the Museum of plaster casts of statues of Greek and Roman antiquity. The reconstruction after the Second World War was initially by Ernst Buschor (1929-1959), Ernst - Wedeking Homann (1959-1973), a significant but by Paul Zanker (1976-2002) operated.

As important archaeological work tool of the museum is the corresponding photo library, which consists of around 100,000 photos.

The museum is located since 1976 in the former Nazi administration building, now the home of the cultural institutions of Munich and is permanently available to the public since 1991. Comprising a total of over 1800 casts and thus represents the fourth largest cast museum in Germany dar. Since June 2005, is there a colored succinct model of the Parthenon of Athens, which is on permanent loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art ( New York) and as one of the most valuable architectural models applies.