Description of the attraction
Ulm City Museum was founded in 1924. Currently, the exhibition halls and museum funds are located in several buildings of the Old Town. The collections of the Ulm City Museum consist of unique collections of archaeological finds, paintings and sculptures, objects of decorative and applied art from the 16th to the 19th century.
The museum's archaeological exhibition features an extensive collection of finds from excavations in the Ulm region. The most unique exhibit in this part of the city museum is the world's oldest sculpture - the man-lion. This thirty-centimeter figurine from a mammoth bone was carved by an ancient artist about 40 thousand years ago. It took scientists more than 70 years to restore it literally bit by bit. The first parts of the statuette were discovered in the Stadel cave by an employee of the Ulm City Museum Wetzel back in 1939. But only in 1969, scientists began to restore it from several hundred smallest fragments, which finally ended only in 2009. In addition to the lion-man, the archaeological museum can rightfully be proud of the collection of ancient images of birds and animals and the first human musical instruments (flutes).
The exhibition of paintings and sculptures at the Ulm City Museum is represented by a large collection of works by artists of the so-called Ulm School in the late Gothic style. The history of the ancient city is also represented by a collection of medieval household items of townspeople, works of artisan guilds and masters of arts and crafts.
In addition to the permanent collections, the Ulm City Museum holds a variety of thematic exhibitions, lectures and other educational work.
