Staatliche Antikensammlungen

The Staatliche Antikensammlungen (in German “collections of antiquities of the State”) is a museum of Munich devoted to Greek, Roman and Etruscan antiquities. Located on Königsplatz, it forms with the Glyptothèque to which it faces an architectural complex and muséal famous.

The building was built of 1838 with 1848 by the architect Georg Friedrich Ziebland on the order of the king Louis I {{er}} of Bavaria. The pediment, of Corinthian style, answers the Ionian pediment thus of Glyptothèque, completed in 1830. Previously named Museum antiker Kleinkunst , the museum, severely damaged by the bombardments at the time of the Second world war, was restored and reopened with the public in 1967 under its current name.

The exposed collections come partly from the bottom bequeathed by Louis Ier of Bavaria, which gathers many daily objects (terra cotta, jewels, bronzes, glasses, etc). The collection of ceramic Greek is re-elected in the whole world.

The direction of Antikensammlungen is located at the Haus der Kulturinstitute.

External bonds

Official site of the museum

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