Museums and galleries in Mainz

Museums and galleries in Mainz

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   Dom St. Martin

   Mainz Cathedral

   A 1,000-year-old Romanesque cathedral featuring a double-chancel design and numerous funerary monuments of former Prince-Electors. The interior and the associated cathedral museum house religious artworks spanning a millennium of the city's history. Public tours are held on the last Saturday of each month (registration via [email protected]).

   Mon-Sat 09:00-17:00, Sun 13:00-17:00

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   Gutenberg Museum

   There are reconstructions of print shops and Gutenberg's hand press, an exhibition of incunabula, and the first two Gutenberg bibles are on display in a strong room. They also have a section devoted to the Far East with colored woodcarvings and prints from Japan, China and Korea. There is even an exhibition on the electronic future of books. Most displays have an English translation. You can purchase a guide in several different languages with your admission. Every hour or so, someone demonstrates how Gutenberg`s hand press works by printing a bible page on a replica of the press. Watching this demonstration is included in the entry fee.

   Tue-Sat 09:00-17:00, Sun 11:00-15:00·Adults €5, children 8 - 18 years €2, students €3

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   Landesmuseum

   State Museum Mainz

   The Department of Antiquities traces the cultural history of the Rhineland from prehistory to the present.

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   Museum für Antike Schifffahrt

   Museum of Ancient Navigation

   Unique to Mainz is this museum, which contains the remains of five 5th-century Roman warship wrecks salvaged from the Rhine in the 1980s. True-to-life replicas were re-constructed based on these originals. Visitors also have the opportunity to glimpse behind the scenes in the research laboratory and in the museum’s workshops. These ships were found when the local Hilton was expanding its property.

   closed until late autumn 2026·Free

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   The Sacred Site of Isis- Mater Magna

   A few years ago, when a shopping centre now named Römerpassage ("Roman Shopping Way") was built, the construction workers found the remnants of what used to be a temple in the Roman city of Mainz. So, nowadays, you can visit this site inside the shopping centre. It's surrounded by a quite interesting exhibition about the religious purpose of the Isis site.

   Mon-Sat 10:00-18:00·Free of charge

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   Bischöfliches Dom-und Diözesanmuseum Mainz

   Cathedral museum & treasury, church art.

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   Museum für Archäologie

   Museum of Archaeology

   The former Roman-Germanic Central Museum.

   To reopen in 2027·Free

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   Naturhistorisches Museum

   Museum of Natural History

   Reichklarastraße 10

Listings from the Wikivoyage guide to Mainz (CC BY-SA 4.0).