Museums

The Palatinate Museum (Kurpfälzisches Museum) documents Heidelberg’s eventful history from the Palaeolithic Age through the residence of the court of Kurpfalz (Electoral Palatinate) in the city. The large number of artefacts from the Merovingian age paints a lively picture of Frankish life in the early Middle Ages. A section on urban archaeology and history concludes … Read more » “Palatinate Museum of the City of Heidelberg”

The Museum shows the largest archaeological collection in a German University. The collection contains two areas – the antique museum and the plaster cast reproduction collection. The antique museum offers an overview of the culture of the Mediterranean area from 3000 B.C. up to the Roman Empire. It includes a reconstruction of Heinrich Schliemann’s Troy … Read more » “Museum of Ancient Art Heidelberg”

The museum is located inside the Church of the Jesuits and exhibits acollection of ecclesiastical art from the 17th -19th centuries. It contains sculptures, liturgical garments, paintings, monstrance´s, books, goblets, and other ecclesiastical objects. There is also a history of the Order of the Jesuits and of the construction of the church.  

The museum (Völkenkundemuseum) has permanent and rotating collections comprised of arts and ethnographical objects from Asia, Africa, and the Pacific. (Völkenkundemuseum)

The Museum exhibits so-called primitive art in the 20th century, paintings made by non-academic artists, who have not used any specific style or influence  

The museum (Kunstmuseum) ownes a collection of modern and contemporary art, including works by Picasso.

The museum(Museum im Römerbad) presents one of the most impressive finds of the Roman period, the Roman baths and other (Roman) history and culture.