GERMANY ~ Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum - Hildesheim

... Start of a Germany museum week and all with fantastic stamps and postmarks👍... great views of an  archaeological museum mostly dedicated to Ancient Egyptian and Ancient Peruvian art... it contains one of the world’s most famous collections of ancient Egyptian cultural monuments with outstanding treasures of the Old Kingdom from the age of great pyramids....there are statues, sarcophagi, wall reliefs, busts and all manner of smaller carved items.... making this one of the world's most outstanding collections of ancient Egyptian art and culture outside of Egypt... the museum also includes the second largest collection of Chinese porcelain in Europe... apart from the permanent exhibitions, the museum hosts temporary exhibitions of other archaeological and contemporary topics... with cute 😃smiley😃 stamps and "I shall write again" postmark... Thank you Dustin!!【ツ】

Photo: Sh Shalchi The current museum is the result of the union of the Roemer Museum, founded in 1844 (and named after one of the founders, Herrmann Roemer), and the Pelizaeus Museum, established in 1911, that had housed the private collection of Egyptian antiques of Wilhelm Pelizaeus.

In 2000, the old building, originally built in the 1950s, was replaced by a new building, significantly increasing the space available for exhibitions.

In 1844, Herman Roemer (1816-1894), together with a number of citizens of Hildesheim, formed an association with the aim of establishing a museum of natural and ethnological history for their city. His subsequent travel throughout Egypt in 1870 aroused a deep interest in the art of ancient Egypt. But it was not until he met Wilhelm Pelizaeus (1851-1930), a native of Hildesheim living in Egypt, that Roemer first conceived the idea of an Egyptian room.

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Emojis
(Issued 04-04-2019)