Germany Guide
Saxony-Anhalt and the Harz
Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte
Address: Richard-Wagner-Strasse 9
Opening time: Tues 9am–7.30pm, Wed– Fri 9am–5pm, Sat & Sun 10am–6pm
Price: €4
Telephone: 0345/524 73 63
Website: www.archlsa.de
The Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte (Museum of Prehistory) is often most rewarding for its temporary exhibitions. Otherwise its strong points are its Prehistoric, Stone and Bronze Age collections, together a staggering million items, many of which are carefully accompanied by diagrams and illustrations to help portray life in ancient times. Most memorable among them are some 125,000-year-old bull elephant skeletons, but the museum's greatest treasure is probably the Himmelsscheibe von Nebra, a 3600-year-old Bronze Age metal plate made of bronze on which gold reliefs represent astronomical phenomena and mysterious religious symbols.