Exhibitions that toured the world
On the pharaohs, the Vikings and the stone ages, organised from here.
Immanuel Giel — Public domain · Ahmet Düz, Dreiländer- & Oberrheinfotograf — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Ahmet Düz, Dreiländer- & Oberrheinfotograf — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Nikolai Karaneschev — CC BY 3.0
By computed tomography — the same machines used medically — which gives three-dimensional images of what lies under the wrappings: the bones, the preserved organs and the amulets placed inside. This reveals age at death, disease, injury and sometimes cause of death, without damaging the body or the wrappings. Before the technique, examination meant unwrapping, which is irreversible destruction.
If modern art interests you the Kunsthalle is clearer and easier — one building and a coherent collection. If archaeology and cultures interest you this institution is richer, but it needs planning because it is dispersed. Both are within walking distance in Mannheim, and one of each fits into a day.
Sign in to write your review of this place.
No reviews yet — be the first.
A group of museums in Mannheim spread across several historic buildings, covering archaeology, art, the history of cultures and photography. The main seat is the Zeughaus — an eighteenth-century arsenal — holding antiquities, ethnographic collections and decorative arts. What has made the institution internationally known are its major archaeological exhibitions: it has organised shows on the pharaohs, the Vikings and the stone ages that toured the world, and its research centre specialises in analysing mummies by computed tomography — it has worked on Egyptian and South American mummies and analysed them without opening them. The collection also holds a strong section on the history of photography, and a museum of Asian art. One essential practical point: this is not an institution in one building but several scattered across the city, each with its own displays, hours and tickets, and some may be closed or between exhibitions. Check the official site before going to learn which building shows what.
On the pharaohs, the Vikings and the stone ages, organised from here.
The main seat is the historic Zeughaus building.
A strong section alongside the antiquities and Asian art.
Several buildings in central Mannheim