Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt

Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt
Front side of the museum in 2015
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Former name
Großherzoglich Hessisches Landesmuseum zu Darmstadt[1]
Established12 July 1820; 204 years ago (1820-07-12)
LocationFriedensplatz 1, Darmstadt, Germany
Coordinates49°52′30″N 8°39′13″E / 49.8749°N 8.6535°E / 49.8749; 8.6535
TypeMultidisciplinary museum
Key holdingsDrawings Dürer/Rembrandt, Block Beuys, A Forest of Sculptures, Messel pit fossils, American mastodon
CollectionsPaintings, sculptures, prints and drawings, geology, paleontology, zoology, cultural history
Collection size
  • 1.35 million objects
  • 100,000 exhibits
Visitorsc. 80,000
FounderLouis I, Grand Duke of Hesse
DirectorMartin Faass
Architects
  • Alfred Messel (1906)
  • Georg Zimmermann (rebuild 1955)[3]
  • Reinhold Kargel (extension 1984)
OwnerHessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts
Employees83 (2014)[2]
Public transit accessTram, bus: Schloss, Luisenplatz
Nearest car parkSchlossgarage
Websitewww.hlmd.de

Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt (HLMD) is a large multidisciplinary museum in Darmstadt, Germany. The museum exhibits Rembrandt, Beuys, a primeval horse and a mastodon under the slogan "The whole world under one roof".[4][5] As one of the oldest public museums in Germany, it has c. 80,000 visitors every year and a collection size of 1.35 million objects.[5][6] Since 2019, Martin Faass [de] has been director of the museum.[7][8] It is one of the three Hessian State museums, in addition to the museums in Kassel and Wiesbaden.[9] Similar institutions in Europe are the Universalmuseum Joanneum in Graz and the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.[5]

  1. ^ Schaefer, Georg (1872). Grossherzogl. Hessisches Landesmuseum (Darmstadt, G., Historischer Verein für das Grossherzogthum Hessen (Darmstadt, G. (1872). Die Denkmäler der Elfenbeinplastik des Grossherzoglichen Museums zu Darmstadt in kunstgeschichtlicher Darstellung: von dem historischen Verein für das Grossherzogthum Hessen herausgegebene Festschrift zur Feier der vom 16. bis 20. September 1872 in Darmstadt tagenden Generalversammlung der deutschen Geschichts- und Alterthumsvereine. Darmstadt: Buchdruckerei H. Brill. Archived from the original on 15 January 2023. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
  2. ^ "HLMD Daten und Fakten" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 May 2022. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
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  4. ^ "Press release reopening 2014" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 January 2023. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  5. ^ a b c "Universalmuseum in Darmstadt feiert 200. Geburtstag". Hamburger Abendblatt (in German). dpa. 22 January 2020. Archived from the original on 4 January 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  6. ^ Deschka, Katharina (19 December 2022). "Kritik des Rechnungshofs: Museumsdirektor Faass weist Vorwürfe von sich". FAZ.NET (in German). Archived from the original on 14 January 2023. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
  7. ^ "Darmstadt: Dr. Martin Faass ist neuer Direktor des Hessischen Landesmuseums Darmstadt". www.Metropolnews.info (in German). Archived from the original on 4 January 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  8. ^ "Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt arbeitet an der Zukunft". Süddeutsche.de (in German). dpa. 17 February 2019. Archived from the original on 4 January 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  9. ^ "Museen in Hessen". wissenschaft. hessen.de (in German). Archived from the original on 4 January 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2023.