Archäologie Museum Greding

About the museum

The Archäologie Museum Greding is located on the Marktplatz in the center of town. The building with its stepped gable dates in its core from the 17th century and was long an inn with a brewery, later the "Hirschwirtshaus" of a postmaster. After the district bought it in 1962, it served as a nursing home, hotel and administrative building. It has been used as a museum since 1992; initially a local history collection under the name "Museum Natur und Mensch" displayed its holdings there.

After a thorough renovation, today's Archäologie Museum opened in 2012 in three stages: first the inner courtyard with the princely grave, in 2014 the rooms on cemeteries and the early Middle Ages, and then the prehistoric rooms. The basis is the finds from the excavations near Großhöbing, made during the construction of the ICE line and a long-distance water pipeline, as well as finds from the Greding industrial area.

The centerpiece is the Höbinger princely grave: a reconstruction of a burial around 700 AD, in which a clan leader and four companions were laid to rest together, apparently having died violently. Scientifically based facial reconstructions give some of the people their faces back. The rooms cover the period from the Ice Age to the High Middle Ages and include hunter-gatherers, the Neolithic, the Bronze and Iron Ages, the cemetery, disease marks on skeletons, mills on the Schwarzach and transport history.

Highlights

• Reconstructed princely grave of Großhöbing with five people buried (around 700 AD)
• Life-size reconstructions of early inhabitants of the region
• Rooms from the Ice Age to the High Middle Ages
• Paleopathology: signs of disease and injury on skeletons
• Mills on the Schwarzach and transport history
• Crime-themed program "SoKo Großhöbing" for school classes

Permanent exhibitions

• Höbinger Fürstengrab und Fünffachbestattung – Reconstruction of the burial of a clan leader and his four companions around 700 AD, discovered in the excavations along the ICE line.
• Von der Eiszeit bis zur Eisenzeit – Hunter-gatherers, the Neolithic, the Bronze Age and the earlier and later pre-Roman Iron Age, based on finds from the region.
• Gräberfeld, Paläopathologie und Frühmittelalter – Graves with grave goods, disease marks on skeletons, mills on the Schwarzach and early medieval Greding.

Founded

1976

Operated by

Stadt Greding

Director

Bettina Kempf

Admission & discounts

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Kids & families

Great for kids & families

• Family tours & workshops
• Kids’ birthday parties

Programs for children's groups from age 6 ("Ein Besuch beim Fürsten," 1.5 hours, with crafts) and "SoKo Großhöbing" for classes from third grade on (2 hours); the children's program can also be booked as a birthday party from age 7.

Getting there & parking

The museum is at Marktplatz 8 in the center of Greding.

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