Archaeological Museum of the Upper Palatinate Amberg

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The Archaeological Museum of the Upper Palatinate Amberg was an archaeological museum in Amberg in the Bavarian administrative district of Upper Palatinate . The branch museum of the Archaeological State Collection in Munich was housed in the Amberg City Museum . The exhibition presented the settlement and cultural history of the Upper Palatinate from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages . In addition to archaeological finds , models and reconstructions showed the way of life of the people in the eventful early history. Films on archaeological topics could be called up at a media station.

The museum was located in the so-called Klösterl from 1991 to 2004 . In 2005 the exhibition was revised and housed in the Amberg City Museum in Zeughausstraße. The State Archaeological Collection in Amberg was dissolved and closed at the end of 2012 due to insufficient visitor numbers. The vacated upper floor of the Alte Feuerwache building will continue to be used for other museum purposes by the Amberg City Museum.

literature

  • Dorothea van Endert: Archaeological Museum of the Upper Palatinate Amberg. Theiss, Stuttgart 2007. ISBN 978-3-8062-2104-6

Coordinates: 49 ° 26  '38.4 " N , 11 ° 51' 32.4"  E