Archaeological Museum of the City of Kelheim

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The Archaeological Museum of the City of Kelheim is a museum on the archeology and history of the Lower Bavarian city ​​of Kelheim .

The museum was founded in 1908 by the city of Kelheim. In 1981 the museum moved into the Herzogskasten , a municipal granary from the 15th century. The focus of the prehistoric and early historical collection on the ground floor is on the development history of Kelheim and the surrounding area and covers the period from the Neanderthals of the Altmühltal to the first centuries AD. The upper floor is followed by the city history exhibition, which was inaugurated in 1990 and extends to the founding of the ducal residence of the Wittelsbach family in Kelheim and the founding of the city. Part of the upper floor is available for special exhibitions . Through numerous excavations in the course of the construction of the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal as well as donations , the Historical Association and the Museum were able to compile an extensive and chronologically complete inventory of historical artefacts.

In the inner courtyard of the museum an original section and the reconstruction of the original height of the fortification wall of the Celtic oppidum Alkimoennis can be seen, the remains of which are on the Michelsberg .

The museum is the publisher of various prehistoric and early historical specialist publications such as the Kelheimer Museumblätter and the museum booklets . On April 7, 1983 it was awarded the European Museum Special Prize awarded by the Council of Europe .

literature

  • Petra Neumann-Eisele, Bernd Sorcan: Stone - bronze - iron. The prehistory and early history department of the Archaeological Museum of the City of Kelheim. Archaeological Museum Kelheim, Kelheim 2004, ISBN 3-00-013417-4 .
  • Alois Schmid : Kelheim city on the river. The urban history department in the Archaeological Museum of the city of Kelheim. Deutscher Sparkassenverlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-09-303991-6 .
  • Archaeological Museum Kelheim (ed.): Wanderix "Join us, we will discover the museum together". 7th edition, 2007 (museum guide for children).

Web links

Commons : Herzogskasten (Kelheim)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 55 ′ 5 ″  N , 11 ° 52 ′ 15 ″  E