Museum der städtischen Sammlungen im Zeughaus, Municipal museum in Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany.
The Museum of Municipal Collections occupies the historic Zeughaus building across three floors, presenting exhibits on archaeology, natural history, and ethnography. The collection displays findings from various periods along with zoological specimens such as primates and reptiles.
The building was constructed in 1855 as an artillery storage facility and served military purposes for many decades. A major renovation in 2016 restored its historical facade facing Arsenalplatz.
The top floor holds "Riemers Welt", the only permanent ethnological display in Saxony-Anhalt comparing objects from several continents. Its 1,500 pieces, split roughly evenly between natural history and ethnology, focus on Africa and Oceania, with ancient Egypt, pre-Columbian America and Japan also represented. A carousel-shaped installation links ethnographic and natural-history objects, and the collector's study is reconstructed.
The museum occupies three floors of the former Zeughaus, with the ground floor, first floor and attic each given to a different collection. The attic display deliberately avoids small separate rooms, so the historic roof structure stays visible along the route. A room on the top floor is set aside for museum education.
The city model in the ground-floor "crown jewels" display covers almost 20 square metres and depicts Wittenberg around 1870, not 1873. It introduces the permanent exhibitions on the floors above and links them to the city's history.
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