Mainz Museums

Holzskulptur einer Frau mit Kind auf dem Arm.

Cathedral and Diocesan Museum

Situated in the cathedral’s former chapter house and cloisters, this atmospheric museum shows religious works of art from the last 1500 years. Being the second largest museum of its kind in Germany, it also shows pieces of European standing such as sculptures by the Naumburg Master including the famous group of the Last Judgement containing the Deesis, The Blessed and The Damned. The museum includes St. Nicholas’s Chapel which contains the archiepiscopal treasury.

Landesmuseum / State Museum

Discover the art and cultural-historical collection of one of the oldest museums in Germany that extends from the Stone Age to the present. Among the exhibits there is Kelti, a Celtic dog made out of blue glass, one of Central Europe’s most important collections of Roman stone monuments, precious medieval jewellery, sculptures and panel paintings, Baroque furniture, porcelain and landscape paintings as well as paintings by Picasso, Beckmann and Rothko.

Landesmuseum: Kelti der Glashund von Wallertheim

Museum für Antike Schifffahrt: Römische Patrouillengaleere

Museum of Ancient Seafaring

Closed until 2027

Visit one of the world’s most important museums of ancient seafaring. In the museum you will see the almost 2000 year-old wrecks of several Roman ships discovered in Mainz in the 1980’s. We will walk between impressive life-size reconstructions which show not only the engineering skills of the Roman shipbuilders but also give us an insight into life at this important frontier of the Roman Empire. This tour also includes a visit to the nearby remains of the largest Roman theatre north of the Alps.