The Antikensammlung Kiel is the collection of antiquities held by the Classical Archaeology Department of the

University of Kiel Kiel University, officially the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, (german: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in ...

, housed in nine basement rooms in the

Kunsthalle Kiel The Kunsthalle zu Kiel is an art museum in the German city of Kiel. With 2,000 m2 of display space, it is the largest museum in the city. It is north of the city centre on Düsternbrooker Weg. It has a lecture hall, a small cafe and a sculptur ...

. It is the only museum of its kind in the state of

Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig-Holstein (; da, Slesvig-Holsten; nds, Sleswig-Holsteen; frr, Slaswik-Holstiinj) is the northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Sch ...

and includes internationally important collections of pottery from

Magna Graecia Magna Graecia (, ; , , grc, Μεγάλη Ἑλλάς, ', it, Magna Grecia) was the name given by the Romans to the coastal areas of Southern Italy in the present-day Italian regions of Calabria, Apulia, Basilicata, Campania and Sicily; these re ...

as well as classical sculptures and casts of such sculptures.

History

The university founded the collection in the first half of the 19th century, thanks to Peter Wilhelm Forchhammer, its first archaeology lecturer, supported by

Otto Jahn Otto Jahn (; 16 June 1813, in Kiel – 9 September 1869, in Göttingen), was a German archaeologist, philologist, and writer on art and music. Biography After the completion of his university studies at Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel, ...

. In 1840 he began raising funds for a museum of local and classical archaeology which he hoped would bring about an artistic revival in northern Germany and the following year he was given the first objects for the collection, even before the building was begun. These donations were casts of the sculptures from the

Parthenon The Parthenon (; grc, Παρθενών, , ; ell, Παρθενώνας, , ) is a former temple on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, that was dedicated to the goddess Athena during the fifth century BC. Its decorative sculptures are considere ...

and arrived in Kiel in 1842. Kiel was then part of Denmark and Christian VIII of Denmark granted the university the main space in the chapel of Kiel Castle to turn into a cast gallery - that chapel had been destroyed by fire in 1838. It opened there on 18 January 1843. After that of the

University of Bonn The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine U ...

, it was the second archaeological collection set up in Germany or Austria and the first public art museum in northern Germany. Antikensammlung Kiel 258

Directors

The post of director is traditionally held by the head of the university's Classical Archaeology Department. * 1842–1894: Peter Wilhelm Forchhammer * 1895–1903: Arthur Milchhoefer * 1904–1907: Ferdinand Noack * 1909–1919: Bruno Sauer * 1920–1925: August Frickenhaus * 1925–1946: Eduard Schmidt * 1946–1947:

Roland Hampe Roland Hampe (2 December 1908 - 23 January 1981) was a German classical archaeologist. From 1959-1975 he was a professor at Heidelberg University.Hölscher, Tonio.Hampe, Roland" '' Brill's New Pauly Supplements'' I - Volume 6 : History of classica ...

* 1948–1968:

Wilhelm Kraiker Wilhelm Kraiker (4 August 1899 – 24 April 1987) was a German classical archaeologist. Life Born in Frankfurt, in 1927 Kraiker received his doctorate at Heidelberg University under Ludwig Curtius. In 1928/29 he received a , afterwards he was as ...

* 1968–1990: Konrad Schauenburg * 1990–2006: Bernhard Schmaltz * 2007–2010: Frank Rumscheid * 2012–present: Annette Haug

Curators

* since 1985: Joachim Raeder

External links

*http://www.antikensammlung-kiel.de/ *http://museen-sh.de/Objektsuche/%7CSuchbegriff%7CAntikensammlung%7C/ {{authority control Museums in Kiel Archaeological museums in Germany Museums of ancient Rome in Germany Museums of ancient Greece in Germany Plaster cast collections