Quintana Museum

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Roman Centurion (Photo: 2009)
Military diploma

The Museum Quintana (full name Museum Quintana Archeology in Künzing ) is an archaeological and art history museum in the Lower Bavarian municipality of Künzing in the Deggendorf district . The museum is a partner museum of the State Archaeological Collection in Munich and a member of the Museum Association of Archeology in Eastern Bavaria . The museum is supported by the municipality of Künzing.

On July 20, 2001, the Quintana Museum was inaugurated after many years of efforts in the presence of Roman Herzog . The focus of the exhibition is the history of Eastern Bavaria from the Neolithic in 6/5. Millennium BC Until the early Middle Ages . A separate department of the museum shows prints on the subject of St. Severin of Noricum from the 16th to 19th centuries.

The permanent exhibition is divided into the following sections:

  • New Stone Age with the results of the Middle Neolithic circular moat excavated in the Unterberg district .
  • Metal ages with Bronze Age weapons and jewelry, as well as information on the development of animal husbandry and four-wheeled wagons.
  • Roman imperial era with the emergence and development of the Künzing fort , the Roman military history of the region.
  • Late antiquity shows the destruction of the Roman fort by Germanic tribes and the emergence of Bavarian tribes in the region.
  • Early Middle Ages with finds from a large burial ground in the Bruck district
  • Graphics department with prints on Saint Severin from the collection of the Museum Association Künzing.

literature

  • Museum Quintana - Archeology in Künzing. Published by Museum Quintana Archeology in Künzing 2007

Web links

Commons : Museum Quintana  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 40 ′ 7.7 "  N , 13 ° 4 ′ 42.6"  E