Museum Ulm

Art
History and tradition
Ulm
Germany
The Museum Ulm is a unique universal museum of art and cultural history. The focus of medieval art is the outstanding collection of late Gothic painting and sculpture. With the Kurt Fried Collection Foundation, it presents the most important artistic trends of the USA and Europe of the 20th century. The highlight of the Archaeological Collection is the "Lion Man" from the UNESCO World Heritage Site Stadel Cave, one of the oldest figurative carvings in the world.

Temporary exhibitions

Paco Knöller, der See, Bleistift und Farbstift auf Papier, 2004, Foto Jochen Littkemann, Courtesy Galerie Thomas Schulte Berlin

Paco Knöller

Drawings and Oil Pastels on Wood
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In a cabinet exhibition to mark his 70th birthday, the Museum Ulm is presenting new graphic works by the artist Paco Knöller, who comes from Obermarchtal and is today one of the most important contemporary German painters and draughtsmen of his generation. Already during his studies at the...
Steinscheiben aus der Grabung, 1960, Durchmesser max. 6,9 cm; Foto Landesmuseum Württemberg, H. Zwietasch

Black on White

The Mystery of the Stone-Age Discs from the Blau Valley
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Since 2011, they have been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Prehistoric Lake Dwellings around the Alps", the ruins of a 6,000-year-old village from the Neolithic period in the Blau valley at Ehrenstein near Ulm. Among the numerous recovered objects made of stone, bones, antlers and pottery,...
Joseph Beuys_sw-Fotografie_1981 (c) Fotoarchiv Ruhrmuseum Essen_ Foto Jürgen Leiendecker_VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020

A Woodstock of Ideas

Joseph Beuys, Achberg and the German South
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On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Joseph Beuys' birth in 2021, the Museum Ulm is dedicating an exhibition project to the artist of the century that focuses in particular on his special connection to the south of Germany. Joseph Beuys obtained the felt for his objects in Giengen an der...
Lois Hechenblaikner_Saisonabschluss-Event Idalp, Ischgl_2004_Farbfotografie_Courtesy by the artist

Lois Hechenblaikner

Alpine Glow
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With the publication last summer of his illustrated book "Ischgl", Lois Hechenblaikner (*1958) caused quite a stir in the international media. Since the mid-1990s, the photographer from Alpbachtal in Tyrol has been observing the effects of mass tourism on his homeland. For him, Ischgl in particular,...
Pressefoto_Museum Ulm_(Stiftung Sammlung Kurt Fried)_Foto Henry M. Linder
Museum Ulm_(Kiechelsaal)_Foto Henry M. Linder
Museum Ulm_Kunst- und Wunderkammer Christoph Weickmann_Foto Henry M. Linder
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Museum Ulm
Marktplatz 9
89073
Ulm
Germany
+49 731 161 4301
https://museumulm.de/
info.museum@ulm.de
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