Musée archéologique de Strasbourg

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Mausoleum of the legionaries Marcus Valerius Rufus (center), Lucius Valerius Niger and Lucius Valerius, found in 1998 in the Koenigshoffen district.

The Archaeological Museum Strasbourg (French Musée archéologique de Strasbourg ) is the municipal archaeological museum of Strasbourg and shows archaeological finds from Alsace .

history

The city's first public archaeological museum was based on the private collection of the scholar Johann Daniel Schöpflin ( Museum Schoepflini , first cataloged in 1773). It was completely destroyed by Prussian artillery fire in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War, along with the rest of the Strasbourg art collections; only a few plaster casts of grave steles stored elsewhere were able to survive the destruction. From 1876, the Société pour la conservation des monuments historiques d'Alsace (in the realm of Alsace-Lorraine : "Society for the Preservation of Historical Monuments in Alsace"), established in 1855, laid the foundation for a rapidly growing new collection, initially the Research was reserved. In 1896 the new archaeological museum was opened to the general public.

The museum has been located in the basement of the Rohan Castle in Strasbourg since 1889 .

The museum was headed by Robert Forrer from 1907 to 1940 and by Jean-Jacques Hatt from 1946 to 1981 . Bernadette Schnitzler has been running the museum since 1981 .

Stocks

So-called "young emperor Caracalla" (approx. 202–203 AD)

The focus of the newly built and constantly expanding collection extends from prehistory and early history to the early Middle Ages . The numerous finds that have been made in the area of ​​the former Argentoratum since 1870 and are still being made represent the core of the collection. Particularly significant exhibits include the finds from the Mithraea of Strasbourg- Koenigshoffen and Mackwiller , the mountain sanctuary of the Donon , the dare grave of Ohnenheim who phalerae from Ittenheim and the Spangenhelm of Baldenheim .

A small juvenile male head of gray sandstone , the early 1950s near the Strasbourg Cathedral on today's Place Gutenberg was discovered, is considered Portrait of Emperor Caracalla and was separately 1979 (historical monument historique Monument ) provided. A larger than life head of a bearded mature man (around 235 AD) made from the same stone and found in Eckbolsheim is sometimes considered to be a portrait of Pupienus .

literature

  • Jean-Jacques Hatt : Strasbourg, Musée archéologique. Sculptures antiques regionales . Éditions des Musées nationaux, Paris 1964.
  • Bernadette Schnitzler, Malou Schneider: Le Musée archéologique de Strasbourg . Musées de Strasbourg, Strasbourg 1985.
  • Bernadette Schnitzler: Bronzes antiques d'Alsace. Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-7118-3223-6 .
  • Bernadette Schnitzler: Histoire des musées de Strasbourg. Of the collections entre France et Allemagne . Éditions des musées de Strasbourg, Strasbourg 2009, ISBN 978-2-35125-041-9 .

Web links

Commons : Musée archéologique de Strasbourg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ^ Jeremias Jakob Oberlin : Museum Schoepflini Vol. 1, Strasbourg 1773 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ On the history of the museum: Bernadette Schnitzler, Malou Schneider: Le Musée archéologique de Strasbourg . Musées de Strasbourg, Strasbourg 1985, p. 9 ff.
  3. ^ Jean-Jacques Hatt: Strasbourg, Musée archéologique. Sculptures antiques regionales . Paris 1964, no.76.
  4. ^ Jean-Jacques Hatt: Strasbourg, Musée archéologique. Sculptures antiques regionales . Paris 1964, no.108.

Coordinates: 48 ° 34 ′ 51.1 ″  N , 7 ° 45 ′ 9.2 ″  E