Herxheim Museum
 The front part of the museum property with the main entrance on the right. |
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| place | Herxheim near Landau / Pfalz |
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archaeological collection and local history
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-795713 |
The Herxheim Museum is located in Herxheim near Landau / Pfalz in a half-timbered house from the 18th century. Its focus is on the oldest section of the Neolithic and regional cultural history. Regular special exhibitions, the series The Special Object , a small museum garden and a wide range of educational museum offers for groups of all ages, including by the experimental archaeologist Anne Reichert , complete the offer.
Permanent exhibition
Stone Age Department
The Stone Age section shows many of the finds from the Herxheim linear ceramic site, which is unique in Europe . The ceramics, flint stones and, above all, the bone finds with a strikingly large number of skulls from the Herxheim mine from around 5300 to 4950 BC. BC document the Herxheim death ritual, in which the dead were cut up.
Linear ceramic finds of various styles. Front right the Palatinate style.
View into a showcase with skull finds. On the right are two skullcaps with healed trauma.
Glance into the museum's Stone Age cellar.
The Venus von Herxheim, a fragment of a female idol.
The Herxi, who is the model for the museum's mascot.
Linear ceramic vessel reconstructions can also be experienced with the hands in the museum.
Department of Cultural History
From the local and regional history, special exhibits such as looms, tools for cigar production, house doors, roof tiles with inscriptions and historical image documents are shown.
Doors from the Palatinate. Right with beggar's drawer.
Web links
- Official website of the Herxheim Museum
- Herxheim Museum . In: Museum Portal Rhineland-Palatinate
- Herxheim Museum . In: museum-digital : Rhineland-Palatinate