List of museums of prehistory and early history

A museum for prehistory, prehistory or early history is a historical museum specializing in prehistory and / or prehistory and early history from an anthropological - archaeological point of view. Also included are some important collections of general historical or archaeological museums and other institutions.

For specialty museums, see Archaeological Museums: by specialty , there also more general collections

list

Germany

institution	place	state
Archaeological State Museum Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Closed since 1992, abolished in 2006, new establishment planned	Schwerin	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Archaeological Museum Colombischlössle	Freiburg in Breisgau	Baden-Württemberg
Archaeological Museum Frankfurt	Frankfurt am Main	Hesse
Archaeological Open Air Museum Oerlinghausen	Oerlinghausen	North Rhine-Westphalia
Federseemuseum	Bad Buchau	Baden-Württemberg
State Museum for Prehistory Dresden	Dresden	Saxony
State Museum for Prehistory (Halle)	Hall	Saxony-Anhalt
MONREPOS Archaeological Research Center and Museum for Human Behavioral Development	Neuwied	Rhineland-Palatinate
Museum of Natural History and Prehistory	Dessau-Rosslau	Saxony-Anhalt
Museum of Prehistory and Early History on the Willibaldsburg	Eichstatt	Bavaria
Museum for Prehistory and Early History Frauwalde	Lossatal	Saxony
Museum for Prehistory and Early History of Thuringia	Weimar	Thuringia
Museum of Prehistory and Early History, Werdringen Castle	Hagen	North Rhine-Westphalia
Museum of Prehistory and Early History (Balve)	Balve	North Rhine-Westphalia
Museum of Prehistory and Early History (Berlin)	Berlin	Berlin
Museum of Prehistory and Early History Gunzenhausen	Gunzenhausen	Bavaria
Museum of Prehistory and Early History (Cologne)	Cologne	North Rhine-Westphalia
Museum of Prehistory and Early History (Saarbrücken)	Saarbrücken	Saarland
Neanderthal Museum	Mettmann	North Rhine-Westphalia
Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen	Uhldingen-Mühlhofen	Baden-Württemberg
Collection of Prehistory and Early History at the University of Leipzig	Leipzig	Saxony
Steinsburg Museum	Römhild	Thuringia
Stone Age House Randau	Magdeburg	Saxony-Anhalt
Blaubeuren Museum of Prehistory	Blaubeuren	Baden-Württemberg
Prehistoric Man Museum	Steinheim an der Murr	Baden-Württemberg
Prehistoric and early historical collection at the University of Jena	Jena	Thuringia
Prehistoric and early history museum Thalmässing	Thalmassing	Bavaria

Neighboring countries

institution	place	country
Hjemsted Oldtidspark	Skærbæk	Denmark
Cantonal Museum of Prehistory	train	Switzerland
Laténium	Hauterive	Switzerland
Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico "Luigi Pigorini"	Rome	Italy
Museum of Prehistory Koblach	Koblach	Austria
Museum for Prehistory of the State of Lower Austria	Asparn on the Zaya	Austria
Museum for Prehistory and Early History Schloss Wieselburg	Wieselburg	Austria
Moesgård Museum	Aarhus	Denmark
Neanderthal Museum	Krapina	Croatia
Lüscherz pile dwelling museum	Lüscherz	Switzerland
South Tyrol Museum of Archeology	Bolzano	Italy

See also

• List of paleontological museums (natural history-geological focus)
• List of archaeological museums

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jürgen Krakor: Value through mass - volunteers as a link to the public PDF full text . In: Archäologische Informations 40, 2017, 87–94. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
2. ↑ above: Rostock gets archaeological state museum , website of NDR, April 12, 2017. Accessed on September 27, 2019.
3. ↑ above: Plans for the Archaeological State Museum in arrears , NDR website, April 5, 2019. Accessed September 27, 2019.