Mainz, Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum

If you are interested in ancient history, the museums of Mainz, ancient Mogontiacum, are not to be missed. In fact, the city boasts no less than six museums. The largest of these is the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, (Central Museum for Roman and Germanic Art) in the palace of the former Elector-Archbishop. It consists of three departments: Pre- and Protohistory, Antiquity, and Early Middle Ages. This chronological depth is matched by a geographical width: the collections do not concentrate on Europe, but offer a lot of attention to developments in Africa and Asia. Most objects are original, but there are also a couple of replicas from other museums, which makes the museum an ideal place to explain things to students.

This museum was visited in 2001, 2005, 2008.

27 pictures related to this museum

Translation of relics	Priestess	Tournai, Treasure of Childeric, Ring (copy)	Artemis of Ephesus, statuette
Tournai, Treasure of Childeric, Fibula (copy)	Chryses and a sacrificial bull. Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Mainz (Germany)	Theodora	Shapur I
Coin of Varus	Tombstone of Trophiumus and his family	Coin commemorating Rome's 1000th birthday, showing the Temple of Venus and Roma	Orodes II
Vardanes II	Sasanian helmet	Valens	Vologases VI
Sinatruces	Ephesus, Statuette of Artemis	Tombstone showing an Etruscan and a Celtic warrior (cast)	Verona, Silver dish with Byzantine horseman fighting the Langobards
Julia Mamaea	Contorniate, showing Olympias and her snakes	An eagle attacking a sturgeon (copy of a piece from the Witaszkowo Treasure)	Mithradates IV
The Germanic supreme god Wodan (Odin) on his horse Sleipnir, on a stone from Ardre (Sweden).	Gotarzes II	Ring of a soldier of XXII Primigenia