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)
- Christoph Hahn, Siegmar Hohl (ed.): The great museum guide. Collections on art, culture, nature and technology in Germany. Bassermann Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 2000, ISBN 978-3-8094-5013-9 , pp. 319-320.
- State Office for Museum Care Baden-Württemberg , Museum Association Baden-Württemberg eV (Hrsg.): Museums in Baden-Württemberg. 7th, completely revised edition. Theiss, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-8062-2629-4 , p. 281.
→ See also: Publications of the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museums
Web links
- Official website of the World Cultures Museum
- Museum of world cultures . In: Mannheim.de
- Museum of world cultures . In: Kunst-und-Kultur.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The distant gaze: Searching for traces –– Police photography Mannheim 1946–1971 on photoscala.de.
Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′ 20 " N , 8 ° 27 ′ 43.6" E