Archaeological Museum Frankfurt

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Archaeological Museum Frankfurt a. M.
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Entrance area of ​​the museum (2008)
Data
place Frankfurt am Main
Art
architect Late medieval Carmelite monastery , new building and entrance area: Josef Paul Kleihues
operator
City of Frankfurt a. M.
management
since January 1, 2018 Wolfgang David
Website
ISIL DE-MUS-047712

The Archaeological Museum Frankfurt ( Museum for Prehistory and Early History until 2002 ) explains the history of Frankfurt in archaeologically relevant epochs. It also has an exhibition on the Middle East and a collection of antiquities.

location

The museum is located in the former Carmelite monastery in the western part of Frankfurt's old town . The main entrance is on the corner of Alte Mainzer Gasse and Karmelitergasse. It can be reached on foot from the Willy-Brandt-Platz underground station , the tram stop of the same name and the Paulskirche / Römer stop . The facility has an elevator and toilet for the disabled, a bell (for using the elevator) is located at the employee entrance at Karmelitergasse 1.

history

Choir of the Carmelite Church (2005)

The museum emerged as an independent institute from the archaeological department of the Historical Museum and was founded on June 22, 1937. It was initially given the name “Museum of local prehistory”, which is characteristic of the zeitgeist. After five years in the Dominican monastery , the museum had to close on June 22, 1942 due to the Second World War . Some of the holdings were relocated, another part fell victim to the air raids together with the library in 1944 .

After the end of the war, with the retirement of the first director Karl Woelcke , the museum was initially reunited with the Historical Museum, but continued to operate as an independent institute in 1952 on the initiative of the Director of the Historical Museum Heinrich Bingemer . In 1953 the museum found a new domicile in the Holzhausenschlösschen . The new director Ulrich Fischer opened the exhibition on Frankfurt's archeology on October 30, 1954 on the ground floor and stairwell there.

This exhibition was supplemented in 1976 by a permanent exhibition on the Roman city of Nida-Heddernheim in the Teutonic Order House and in 1977 by an exhibition on the excavation of the old town - together with the History Museum - in the rooms of the History Museum. The many construction projects in the Rhine-Main area during this time and the excavation activities of the museum meant that the premises of the Holzhausenschlösschen were no longer sufficient.

Dendrophoric inscription from a cellar in the Roman city of Nida-Heddernheim in the Archaeological Museum

Under Fischer's successor Walter Meier-Arendt , a new building was built at the Carmelite monastery from 1984 to 1988, which adjoins the historical ensemble to the south. It was planned by the architect Josef Paul Kleihues . With the exception of the exhibition on the excavation of the old town, which is still located in the Historical Museum, and the open-air facilities managed by the museum, all collections are once again united in one place.

collection

Wetterauer Ware , a Terra Sigillata imitation from the Rhine-Main area.

The Archaeological Museum now includes collections on the following topics:

  • In the transept of the Carmelite Church, prehistoric finds from Frankfurt and the surrounding area are presented. The exhibits cover the period from the Paleolithic to the Early Iron Age .
  • The new building houses an exhibition of the Middle East with ancient Iranian finds.
  • The antique collection (also in the new building) contains small art and everyday objects from classical antiquity from the Mycenaean period (14th to 12th century BC) to the early period of the Roman Republic (5th century BC).
  • In the nave of the Carmelite Church, the Roman history of Frankfurt, in particular the Roman city of Nida, is presented. These include numerous stone monuments such as Jupiter's giant columns , consecration stones and the painter's grave, a grave inventory from the cemetery on Okarbener Strasse. It contained 29 paint pots along with other pottery items. The Roman era lasted in the Frankfurt area from 83 AD to 260 AD.
  • The subject of the exhibition in the Annenkapelle is the early Middle Ages up to the Carolingian era .

In the main part of the transept there are changing special exhibitions.

The museum also looks after the outdoor facilities, a shelter with Roman pottery kilns in Heddernheim , the archaeological garden in front of the cathedral and the documentation of five cellar floor plans from the 18th century of Frankfurt's Jewish quarter on Börneplatz (now in the Judengasse Museum ).

Special exhibitions

  • 2010: The founders of Frankfurt-Harheim. A preview of the new early medieval grave finds of the Frankfurt Monument Preservation (in cooperation with the Monument Office of the City of Frankfurt), June 26th to August 29th, 2010.
  • 2010/11: princes, festivals, rituals. Worlds of images between the Celts and Etruscans. October 30, 2010 to March 20, 2011.
  • 2011: saga time. Stories and Finds from Old Iceland. October 1 to November 30, 2011.
  • 2012/13: Queens of the Merovingian period. November 10, 2012 to February 24, 2013.
  • 2014/2015: Gladiators - Death and Triumph in the Colosseum.
  • 2015/2016: Bear cult and shaman magic. Early hunter rituals.
  • 2017: Odin , Thor and Freyja . Scandinavian cult sites from the 1st millennium AD and the Franconian Empire .
  • 2017: Stone Age children. Small hunters and gatherers (in cooperation with the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg ).
  • 2017/2018: Gods of the Etruscans . Between heaven and underworld .
  • 2018/19: Gold & Wine. Georgia's oldest treasures
  • 2019: Biatec Nonnos. Celts on the middle Danube
  • 2019/2020: Qanga. The history of Greenland as a graphic novel

Publications

  • Archaeological series . Edited on behalf of the Department of Culture and Leisure of the City of Frankfurt am Main, Volumes 1–22.
  • Writings of the Archaeological Museum Frankfurt , Vol. 1–23 (until 2002 writings of the Frankfurt Museum for Pre- and Early History ).
  • Images and texts for the permanent exhibition.

literature

  • Ingeborg Huld-Zetsche : The permanent exhibition. Introduction to the departments. Museum for Pre- and Early History, Frankfurt 1989, ISBN 3-88270-313-X (Archäologische Reihe 12).
  • Walter Meier-Arendt: On the history of the museum for prehistory and early history - Archaeological Museum. In: The permanent exhibition. Archaeological series 12. Museum for Pre- and Early History, Frankfurt 1989, ISBN 3-88270-313-X , pp. 4–8.
  • Walter Meier-Arendt: Museum of Pre- and Early History - Archaeological Museum. In: Guide to archaeological monuments in Germany, Vol. 19, Frankfurt am Main and the surrounding area. Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-8062-0585-X , pp. 177-181
  • Museums in Hessen. Published by the Hessischer Museumsverband, Kassel 1994, ISBN 3-9800508-8-2 , pp. 280–282.
  • Dagmar Stutzinger: Greeks, Etruscans and Romans. A cultural history of the ancient world as reflected in the collections of the Archaeological Museum Frankfurt. Schnell + Steiner, Regensburg 2012. ISBN 978-3-7954-2510-4 .

Web links

Commons : Archaeological Museum Frankfurt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Journal Frankfurt of June 23, 2017: New director for the Archaeological Museum. Wolfgang David will take over management as of January 2018 , accessed on December 23, 2017

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 32.2 "  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 42.7"  E