Please note
The State Collections of Antiquities will be closed from June 22 through July 5 for the setup of the upcoming special exhibition.
Your visit
One Ticket, Two Museums
admission rates € 6,- / € 4,- / free for children under 18
Sundays € 1,- (per house)
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The State Collections of Antiquities and Glyptothek strive to make your visit to the museums as pleasant and accessible as possible. For visitors with limited physical mobility, we offer lightweight portable folding chairs in both buildings. If you have any questions regarding accessibility prior to your visit, please do not hesitate to contact us (info@antike-am-koenigsplatz.mwn.de; tel. 089-289 27502).
Exhibitions
Our Masterpieces
The Beautiful One
Hardly any other ancient clay figure has retained its original paintwork so well. From Athens, 300–275 BC.
Portrait from the desert sands
The mummy portrait from the Faiyum oasis shows a upper-class young man from Roman Egypt. Wax-tempera on wood, around 140 A.D.
Boy with a goose
Roman copy of a Greek work in bronze. It depicts a small boy wrestling with a goose, around 220 B.C.
Cage Cup
This precious Roman drinking cup, which is surrounded by a net bowl, comes from Cologne, 300–350 A.D.
Pediment figures from the Temple of Aphaia in Aegina
West pediment of the Temple of Aphaia in Aegina, around 500 BC.
Bronze head of a boy
Eyeballs of silver and pupils of red garnet are lost. Roman bronze after a Classical Greek model around 450 B.C.
Dionysos-cup by Exekias
The god of wine in a sailing ship, vines are winding around the mast. Drinking cup from Athens, 540/30 B.C.
Bust of Athena
The bust of Athena Velletri is a partial copy of a bronze statue. Her eyes were originally made of colored stones and inserted into the statue. The statue was created during the great war between Athens and Sparta, known as the Peloponnesian War, which proved disastrous for Athens.
Barberini Faun
The tall drunken satyr, a male nature spirit with ears and a tail of a horse, was probably set up outside in a sanctuary of Dionysos. It is one of the major works of Hellenistic sculpture, around 220 B.C.
Medusa Rondanini
Gorgo Medusa is one of the most horrible creatures of Greek myth. Looking at her turned every mortal into stone. Marble copy dating from the Roman period of Medusa’s head on the shield of the statue of Athena in the Parthenon around 440 B.C.
Alexander Rondanini
The only surviving life-size statue and one of the most famous portraits of Alexander the Great.
Diomedes
The hero held in his left hand the cult statue of the Trojan Athena and in his right hand a sword. Roman copy of a work by Cresilas around 440 B.C.
Girl from Beroea
Aphrodite, goddess of beauty and love, has got out of the bath and perhaps held a mirror in her hand in which she looks at herself. Bronze statuette, 120–100 B.C.
Golden wreath from Armento
The winner of a competition once received this wreath made of gold sheet and enamel as a prize, 325–300 BC.