Museum of world cultures

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Museum of world cultures

The Museum Weltkulturen is an archaeological and ethnological museum in Mannheim in square D5 (hence also Museum D5 ) between the town hall and the armory . The museum is part of the Reiss Engelhorn museums .

Building history

The modern building, designed by the architect Carlfried Mutschler and the artist Erwin Bechtold , was completed in 1988.

Exhibitions and collections

The World Cultures section comprises the ethnographic and natural history collections, the core of which goes back to the collections of Elector Carl Theodor von der Pfalz . In 1917, the collection of the painter Gabriel von Max was significantly expanded. In 1935, holdings from the Baden state that had been in Karlsruhe until then were added.

On the first floor, the epochs of the Stone Age are presented under the title MenschenZeit - Stories of the Dawn of Early Humans .

The rooms for the changing special exhibitions are located on the ground floor and the second floor .

Special exhibitions (selection)

  • Searching for Clues - Police Photography Mannheim 1946 - 1971 (September 16, 2007 - April 6, 2008)
  • Skull cult - head and skull in human cultural history (October 2, 2011 - April 29, 2012)
  • The Medici - people, power and passion. (February 17, 2013 - July 28, 2013)
  • Human. Nature. Disaster - From Atlantis to Today (September 7, 2014 - March 1, 2015)
  • Egypt - Land of Immortality (November 16, 2014 - January 10, 2016)
  • The DUCKOMENTA - world history rediscovered (September 13, 2015 - April 24, 2016)
  • Treasures of archeology of Vietnam (September 16, 2017 - January 7, 2018)
  • Margiana - A Kingdom of the Bronze Age in Turkmenistan (March 10, 2019 - June 16, 2019)

See also: Special exhibitions at the Reiss-Engelhorn Museums

literature

(in chronological order)

See also: Publications of the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museums

Web links

Commons : Museum Weltkulturen  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. The distant gaze: Searching for traces –– Police photography Mannheim 1946–1971 on photoscala.de.

Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′ 20 "  N , 8 ° 27 ′ 43.6"  E