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What to do and see in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany: The Best Art Museums
Rhineland-Palatinate (German: Rheinland-Pfalz, pronounced [ˈʁaɪ̯nlant ˈp͡falt͡s]; French: Rhénanie-Palatinat; Dutch: Rijnland-Palts) is one of the 16 states (German: Bundesländer) of the Federal Republic of Germany. It has an area of 19,846 square kilometres (7,663 sq mi) and about four million inhabitants. Its state capital and largest city is Mainz.
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1. Arp Museum
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 112 reviews
Reviewed By Wanderlustiger - Trowbridge, United Kingdom
Visited with some friends from Bonn on the day the museum was celebrating its anniversary with free entrance, a party and a band, so it was busy. The layout and architecture are stunningly good, with the entrance through a pseudo-U-Bahn tunnel under the railway, leading to a lift deep in the hillside, which takes you up to one of the airiest and brightest museum halls you could wish for, with stunning high-level views over the Rhine, and Bad Honnef on the opposite bank. The exhibits explained a lot about Henry Moore and Hans Arp, as you might expect, without overloading visitors with 'interpretation'. The curators seemed to have struck an excellent balance in designing the show. Even if we'd had to pay the usual €10 entrance fee, it would have been worth every cent. After the exhibition, we enjoyed a drink on the railway cafe balcony. The station cafe toilets, weirdly, are a work of art that are themselves worth a visit!
2. Galerie Rathaus
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 3 reviews
3. Erkenbert-Museum
4. Fondation Kubach-Wilmsen
5. Wilhelm-Hack-Museum
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 25 reviews
The Wilhelm-Hack museum is an art institution for modern and contemporary art. It houses a diverse collection of medieval, modern and contemporary art encompassing circa 10,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, artists’ books and – gramophone records. Since 2009, the exhibition spaces of the collected are reinstalled every year, each time focussing on a different thematic aspect in order to create new perspectives as regards these works. Other exhibition series deal with special groups of works, for example the ‘Kabinettstucke’ series dedicated to works on paper in particular, or the ‘Zoom’ series, which concentrates on individual works or complexes within the collection. Alongside this, every year three to four big temporary exhibitions are shown every year. The unmistakable emblem of the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum is the ceramic facade by the Catalan painter and sculptor Joan Miro from 1979.
6. Stadtmuseum Simeonstift
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4.0 based on 74 reviews
The City Museum Simeonstift in Trier shows art and cultural treasures from the Middle Ages to well into the 21th century. The exhibition is founded on a collection of valuable donations made by well-known citizens of the city. The artefacts on display are divided into a variety of sections, including paintings, sculptures, arts and crafts, Coptic textiles, furniture and small Oriental plastic art forms. The focal point of the permanent exhibition revolves around the history of the city of Trier. Regularly changing special exhibitions are dedicated to Trier’s native artists or to topics associated with the city. The collection is housed in the Roman building of the Collegiate of St. Simeon, which originates from the 11th century and is directly adjacent to the Porta Nigra. Also worthy of note is the building itself, which boasts one of the oldest and rarely preserved two-storey cloisters. The admission price includes an audio guide (D/E/F/NL), also available as an audio guided tour for children (D).
Reviewed By joes85 - Warwick, United States
I have found in my travels through Germany that Stadt museums are usually the best place to orient yourself, learn enough history and begin your tour. Whether in Munich, Dresden, Kiel, or Trier they provide local history, clothing and furnishings from various periods and scale models. as well as art work. This impressive Romanesque building was built as an Abbey attached to the Porta Nigra (then a cathedral) to honor the canonization of St Simenon who came to Trier in 1100ad. The abbey was dissolved in the 19th century and sold to private owners. In 1917 the City of Trier .purchased it and the Stadt Museum moved from the Hauptmarket to this lovely building after WWII. The highlights of the museum are it's antiquities,A scale model called "Trier in 1800" made completely out of inlaid wood that was begun in 1954 and a fitting tribute to its native Son Karl Marx. For 5.50 Euro you can get 3 hours of education, and enjoy this architectural Gem.As an added bonus there was a mini Christmas in the Court yard when I visited.
7. Haus der Ikonen
8. Museum Boppard
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 26 reviews
Our museum has experienced many changes throughout its over one hundred-year residence in the Electoral Castle. One of the most sweeping changes involved refurbishing and restoring the building. Now complete, the castle and its history have been transformed into one of the main attractions, and have therefore moved into the focus of the exhibition. The City History Section presents excerpts from the history of Boppard in the late Middle Ages and the early modern era. Our extensive collection of the castle’s wooden furnishings also tells the tale of Michael Thonet,one of the city’s famous sons, who started out as a particularly imaginative craftsman and ended up creating a global company. The programme at our museum also includes regular temporary exhibitions and events looking into history and art.
9. Spielzeug und Ikonen Museum
10. Romisches Museum
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