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| Established | 1946 New building: 1974 |
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| Location | Cologne,Germany |
| Collection size | Cologne Roman cultural heritage |
| Public transit access | 51618Köln Hbf |
| Website | http://www.museenkoeln.de/ |
TheRoman-Germanic Museum (RGM, inGerman:Römisch-Germanisches Museum) is anarchaeological museum inCologne,Germany. It has a large collection ofRoman artifacts from the Roman settlement ofColonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium, on which modern Cologne is built. The museum protects the original site of aRoman town villa, from which a largeDionysusmosaic remains in its original place in the basement, and the relatedRoman Road just outside. In this respect the museum is an archaeological site.
The museum also has the task of preserving the Roman cultural heritage of Cologne, and therefore houses an extensive collection ofRoman glass fromfunerals and burials and also exercises archaeological supervision over the construction of theCologne underground.
Most of the museum's collection was housed at theWallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne until 1946. In the front of the museum the former northern town gate of Cologne with the inscription CCAA (for Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium) is on display in the building.
The Römisch-Germanisches Museum, which opened in 1974, is nearCologne Cathedral, on the site of a 3rd-century villa. The villa was discovered in 1941 during the construction of an air-raid shelter. On the floor of the main room of the villa is the renowned Dionysus mosaic. Since the mosaic could not be moved easily, the architects Klaus Renner and Heinz Röcke designed the museum around the mosaic. The inner courtyards of the museum mimic the layout of the ancient villa.
In addition to the Dionysus mosaic, which dates from around A.D. 220/230, there is the reconstructedsepulchre of thelegionary Poblicius (about A.D. 40). There is also an extensive collection of Roman glassware as well as an array of Roman and medieval jewellery. Many artefacts of everyday life in Roman Cologne, ivory and bone objects, bronzes — including portraits of Roman emperorAugustus and his wifeLivia Drusilla —, coins, wall paintings, inscriptions, pottery and architectural fragments round out the displays.
The museum has the world's largest collection ofRoman glass vessels from the 1st to 4th centuries,[1] with more than 4,000 complete collection pieces,[2] including a large number of luxury glasses such as figure vessels, snake thread glasses, cut glasses and tricolor diatretes, for example the famous Colognecage cup from the 4th century, a top piece known among experts. Typical are glass drinking vessels that are decorated with attached glass drops of a different color, the so-calledCologne nubs. The collection, which also includesFranconian glass, continues to grow through excavation finds from the Roman necropolises.[3]
On the night of 18 January 2007,Cyclone Kyrill blew a sheet of plywood through the glass front of the museum right onto the Dionysus mosaic. The damage was repaired within a week.
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