Romano-Germanic Museum
Römisch Germanisches Museum | |
18 Köln Hbf | |
Website | http://www.museenkoeln.de/ |
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The Roman-Germanic Museum (RGM, in
The museum also has the task of preserving the Roman cultural heritage of Cologne, and therefore houses an extensive collection of
Most of the museum's collection was housed at the
The museum
The Römisch-Germanisches Museum, which opened in 1974, is near Cologne Cathedral, on the site of a 3rd-century villa. The villa was discovered in 1941 during the construction of an air-raid shelter. On the floor of the main room of the villa is the renowned Dionysus mosaic. Since the mosaic could not be moved easily, the architects Klaus Renner and Heinz Röcke designed the museum around the mosaic. The inner courtyards of the museum mimic the layout of the ancient villa.
On the night of 18 January 2007, Cyclone Kyrill blew a sheet of plywood through the glass front of the museum right onto the Dionysus mosaic. The damage was repaired within a week.
The museum has the world's largest collection of locally produced glass from the Roman period.[1]
See also
- Cage cup
- Conchylia cup
- Roman governors of Germania Inferior
Books
- Gerta Wolff: The Roman-Germanic Cologne. A Guide to the Roman-Germanic Museum and City of Cologne. J. P. Bachem: Cologne, 2002, ISBN 3-7616-1371-7
External links
- Römisch-Germanisches Museum
- www.colonia3d.de, computer aided animations and renderings of CCAA by Köln International School of Design (in German and English)