Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt 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". 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 …
Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt 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". 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. Since 2019, Martin Faass [de] has been director of the museum. It is one of the three Hessian State museums, in addition to the museums in Kassel and Wiesbaden. Similar institutions in Europe are the Universalmuseum Joanneum in Graz and the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.
Established: 12 July 1820
Location: Friedensplatz 1, Darmstadt, Germany
Owner: Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts
Former name: Großherzoglich Hessisches Landesmuseum zu Darmstadt
Key holdings: Drawings Dürer/Rembrandt, Block Beuys, A Forest of Sculptures, Messel pit fossils, American mastodon
Collections: Paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings, geology, paleontology, zoology, cultural history
Collection size: 1.35 million objects · 100,000 exhibits
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