Ägyptisches Museum Bonn

Aktuelle udstillinger

Om museet

Bonn's Egyptian collection dates back to the early days of the university: in 1820/21 the orientalist Johann Martin Augustin Scholz brought back antiquities from a journey, which were initially kept in other university collections. After the Egyptological Seminar was founded in 1897, Alfred Wiedemann expanded the holdings; in the late 1920s the collection passed entirely into the care of the Egyptology department.

The collection suffered considerable losses in World War II. New holdings came mainly from Elmar Edel's excavations in the rock-cut tomb necropolis of Qubbet el-Hawa near Aswan, which remain a focus to this day. Later, donations such as a large collection of prehistoric arrowheads added to the holdings.

The collection opened as a public museum on March 16, 2001, in the former fencing hall above the Koblenzer Tor of the university's main building. Because of the general renovation of the main building, the museum closed in 2023 and since October 2024 has been showing around 1,000 of its roughly 6,000 objects at its temporary location at Poststraße 26, between the main train station and the Münster (minster). The exhibition spans from prehistory to the Coptic-Arab period.

Højdepunkter

• Finds from the Qubbet el-Hawa necropolis near Aswan
• Plaster cast of a temple relief of Seti I – the collection's first object
• Blue-glazed ceramics depicting Queen Tausret
• Child's coffin whose authenticity is being re-examined
• Largest Egyptian collection in North Rhine-Westphalia

Permanente udstillinger

• Dauerausstellung: Kulturgeschichte des pharaonischen Ägypten – Around 1,000 objects from prehistory to the Coptic-Arab period, with a focus on Bonn's excavations at Qubbet el-Hawa.

Grundlagt

2001

Ejer

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Institut für Archäologie und Kulturanthropologie

Ledelse

Frank Förster (Kustos)

Entrépriser & rabatter

Free admission also for school groups, refugees, press, and members of museum associations.

Tilgængelighed

• Kørestolsvenlig
• Elevator
• Handicaptoilet: ingen oplysninger
• Handicapparkering: ingen oplysninger
• Servicehunde tilladt: ingen oplysninger
• Taktile tilbud: ingen oplysninger
• Rundvisninger på tegnsprog: ingen oplysninger
• Letlæste tilbud: ingen oplysninger
• Synstolkning: ingen oplysninger

Step-free access by elevator to the fourth floor of the P26 building.

Børn og familie

Velegnet til børn og familier

• Familieomvisninger & workshops

Bookable for groups: children's rally through the exhibition (approx. 30–45 min.), introduction to hieroglyphic writing (approx. 45–60 min.), and workshops; daycare groups with children under 6 pay a flat fee of €10.

Transport & parkering

Service & spisesteder

• Café: findes ikke
• Restaurant: findes ikke
• Museumsbutik

Small museum shop with books, papyri, and souvenirs (proceeds benefit the museum).

Arrangementer & udlejning

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