Archaeological Museum Münster

Archaeological Museum of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster

Fürstenberghaus on Domplatz (2006)
Data
place	Muenster
Art	Archaeological collection
opening	1884
management	Achim Lichtenberger
Website	Homepage
ISIL	DE-MUS-100214

The Archaeological Museum of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in the “Fürstenberghaus” on Domplatz in Münster is primarily used by the University's Institute for Classical Archeology and Early Christian Archeology for teaching and research purposes. In addition, it offers the public an insight into the subject area of ​​archeology and shows working methods and research findings. The focus of the exhibition includes exhibits from ancient Greece .

history

The earliest museum collection goes back to 1883, when the first classical archaeologist was appointed to the University of Münster and the foundation for the museum was formed. A large part of this collection was made up of casts of ancient sculptures, which was further expanded with the handover of further casts by the Westphalian Art Association in 1906. In addition, there were duplicates of exhibits from the Royal Museum in Berlin, so that in addition to many casts there was also a large inventory of original works.

However, there is no longer any exhibit from this original collection after the museum and the entire exhibition were destroyed by Allied bombing in 1944 during World War II . It was only in 1958 that the rebuilding of a teaching collection began. Again, casts formed the basis of the collection, which was later supplemented by original works. After the number of exhibits had grown again to a respectable number, the museum organized exhibitions outside the museum both in Münster and in the surrounding area. At the same time, private collections were brought to Münster to be exhibited in the Archaeological Museum.

collection

The museum's collection focuses on Greek antiquity from the geometric era (1000–700 BC) to the archaic era (700–500 BC), the classical period (500–300 BC), the Late Classical period in the 4th century BC And the Hellenistic epoch (300–30 BC) to the Roman Empire (27 BC - 476). A large part of the collection is made up of antique vases, coins, models of ancient sites and casts.

The collection was supplemented by casts of the sculpture cycle from the Temple of Zeus in Olympia , which the city of Essen has given to the museum. The collection also includes Greek and Egyptian works from the Otto Rubensohn collection, as well as the Görtz-Strötgen collection. Werner Peek's collection of early Greek works was also acquired by the museum itself .

literature

• Werner Fuchs : 100 years of classical archeology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster . In: Boreas. Münster contributions to archeology . Volume 7 (1984), pp. 7-14

Web links

• Website of the museum
• Archaeological Museum Münster  in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

Coordinates: 51 ° 57 ′ 44 "  N , 7 ° 37 ′ 26"  E