Location Mannheim, Germany Phone +49 621 2933150 | Collection size ~1.2 million objects | |
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Website www.rem-mannheim.de/en/ Address C 5, 68159 Mannheim, Germany Hours Closed today MondayClosedTuesday11AM–6PMWednesday11AM–6PMThursday11AM–6PMFriday11AM–6PMSaturday11AM–6PMSunday11AM–6PMSuggest an edit Similar Fördererkreis für das Reiss‑Museum, Technoseum, Mannheim Palace, Jesuit Church - Mannheim, Mannheimer Wasserturm Profiles | ||
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The Reiss Engelhorn Museum, or Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen (rem for short), is a museum in Mannheim, Germany. It has an exhibition area of 11,300 square metres (122,000 sq ft), and houses around 1.2 million objects.
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Facilities and collection
The Reiss-Engelhorn-Museum is one of the major museums in Mannheim and comprises four exhibition halls presenting exhibits in archaeology, world cultures, history of art and culture, photography and history of theater and music.
The main facility is the Zeughaus Museum, which features exhibit areas for art, decorative art and cultural history, theater, literature and antiquities. The International Photography Forum, located on the fourth floor, displays photographs from the permanent collections ranging from 19th century to contemporary works and presents exhibitions.
The World Cultures Museum features displays of archaeology from the Metal Ages up through the Roman era, as well as medieval Germany, and ancient Egyptian art and culture.
The Bassermannhaus Museum of Music and Fine Arts features a large collection of musical instruments from around the world.
The Schillerhaus Museum is an 18th-century house that presents the life of Friedrich Schiller.
Wikimedia lawsuit
In 2015, the museum filed a lawsuit against the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Deutschland over the use of photographs of public domain artworks on the Wikimedia projects. In June 2016, a Berlin court (Landgericht Berlin) ruled that digitizing paintings that are in the public domain creates new copyrights, even if the intent is to create a faithful image of the public domain work. The lawsuit was dismissed with respect to Wikimedia Deutschland on the basis that it was not responsible for the files which are managed in the U.S. by the Wikimedia Foundation, which latter organization expressed the intent to appeal the decision.