Museums

The castle (Residenzschloss Altenburg) houses a museum of cards and a cultural historical museum.

The museum (Dorfmuseum) tells the story of the village.

The museum (Stadtmuseum) presents the Roman roots of the town Antunnacum and its development during the Middle Ages.

The Heinrich-Schliemann-Museum was established in the former home of the famous archaeologist, a vicarage from the 18th century. Heinrich Schliemann spent eight years of his childhood (1823 – 1831) in the Mecklenburg village Ankershagen / Müritzkreis,. The Museum organizes lectures and publications and provides comprehensive information on the life and work of Schliemann in order … Read more » “Heinrich-Schliemann-Museum”

The Castle museum (Schloss museum), a baroque building from 1729, exhibits art treasures that decorated the palace after its completion, although the doll museum ‘mon plaisir’ has it origin in another castle. The doll museum actually is a miniature town, showing the life and bustle of al the various social strata in a small residential … Read more » “Castle Museum”

For close to a millennium the unique ensemble of the late Romanesque Collegiate Church Stiftskirche St Peter and Alexander, with its famous cloister and complex of medieval chapter buildings, has stood above the “Stiftsberg” in Aschaffenburg, to form a self-contained historic unity. Since 1861 the has been housed in the buildings of the former Chapter.

A Roman villa modelled on excavations found in Pompeii was built by the Bavarian King Ludwig I the 1840s. The Villa shows what home life in Roman times was like. It is complete with ancient Roman paintings and sculptures. The king got the idea of building the Pompejanum after a visit to Pompeii, believing it … Read more » “Pompejanum”