Museums - Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum

The Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum houses the combined collections of the Roemer Museum, which was founded by citizens of Hildesheim in 1844, and the Pelizaeus Museum, established in 1911. The two original institutions were named after their primary benefactors, Hermann Roemer and Wilhelm Pelizaeus, who gifted the city of Hildesheim the majority of the current museum's collections. In the 1950s the two separate museums were combined in their own dedicated building, which was replaced by a new, significantly larger structure in 2000.
The RPM holds collections in Egyptology, ethnology, natural history, anthropology, and more. Its holdings of Egyptian and Peruvian artifacts stand as some of the most significant of their kind in Europe. The 6,000-item Peruvian collection has more than doubled the size of its original stock through a great many gifts and bequests, and was partially reinstalled in 2001. Spanning roughly 3,000 years of Peruvian history, the objects that comprise the collection include ceramics, textiles, and grave furnishings from as early as 1200 BC. An important new supplement to the collection is a group of pre-Columbian artifacts once belonging to Mrs. Marie Luise Zarnitz, on permanent loan from the Niedersachsen Trust.