Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen
The rem-headquarters is the early classicist armoury with its 6,000 square meters of floor space. Visitors can explore art and historical-cultural collections, historical theatre collections, find out about the history of the city and surrounding landscape of Mannheim and discover a collection of antiques as well as the new forum “International Photography”, which was founded in 2001.
An exciting contrast to the historical armoury is provided by the “Museum Weltkulturen” (Museum of World Cultures), located in a modern, light, cube-shaped building, which comprises the archaeological collections and special exhibitions at fixed intervals. The exhibition “MenschenZeit – Geschichten vom Aufbruch der frühen Menschen” (Human times – stories from the beginnings of humankind) explains the first archaeological period, the Stone Age. It invites visitors to explore the life and surroundings of humans in ancient times.
The Museum Schillerhaus portrays the life of Friedrich Schiller during his period inMannheim. It was there that he celebrated his first success as a dramatist.
The Museum Bassermannhaus hosts permanent and special exhibitions about music, art and world cultures. ZEPHYR – Room for Photography is located on the first floor of the museum.
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Life in the urban fringes around the metropolis of Paris, the banlieues, is his world. Born in 1978 in Créteil - one of these banlieues - Jean-Michel Landon first moved as a youth, later as a social ...

The exhibition "Kinderträume" (Children's Dreams) shows an extensive selection of historical doll kitchens and merchant stores from a top-class private collection. With numerous historical toy ...

Ugo Dossi's large-scale and colorful tableaus, sculptures, projections, and virtual realities (VR) revolve around signs that both point to the world and signify "world". In terms of content, the ...

Artists of the Art Nouveau period were inspired by the world of plants and animals. In masterfully designed decorations they created a microcosm of flowers, grasses, fruits, insects and amphibians ...

We start the time machine and catapult you into ancient Rome. Our interactive exhibition has a lot to offer and you are right in the middle of it. Only with you in the leading role is the exhibition ...

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Mannheim exhibition "Neue Sachlichkeit" in 1925, the exhibition presents the two most important main representatives of New Objectivity in photography - ...

The Reiss-Engelhorn-Museums are the first museum in Germany to dedicate a large-scale exhibition to the topic of food and drink from the perspective of natural science and cultural history. In the ...

The exhibition "Egypt – Land of Immortality” invites visitors to the fascinating world of advanced civilization on the Nile. The exhibits, which are up to 6,000 years old, are the centrepiece of a ...