Museum Alte Kulturen
Museum Alte Kulturen in Germany takes you through 40,000 years of human history. Its university archaeological collections span the Ice Age, ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean.
Ice Age galleries display mammoth-ivory figures, including the Vogelherd horse, alongside the oldest known musical instruments. Finds from the Federsee pile dwellings and Celtic settlements such as Heuneburg continue the story. An offering chamber built for Seschemnefer III at Giza around 4,500 years ago brings ancient Egypt into view. Greek and Roman objects reveal everyday life, funerary customs and ritual practice. The small bronze Tübingen Waffenläufer honours an ancient Olympic runner.
Five-thousand-year-old cuneiform tablets preserve evidence from the beginnings of writing. Two UNESCO World Heritage treasures connect these archaeological collections with places recognised far beyond Europe. In the Five-Sided Tower, Malanggan carvings from New Ireland stand beside large Shipibo vessels from South America.
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The myTuur app is free, and once you are standing at a spot its story starts by itself.
Spots like this one are the stops myTuur strings into tours through Tübingen. In the app, each story begins where you stand: walk up to a spot and it starts, read it on screen or listen as you go, then follow the route to the next one.
What is myTuur?
myTuur is a free city-guide app. Its tours are built from spots, and each spot carries a story that starts when you get there, to read or to listen to as you like.