The history of the Landesmuseum Mainz

1803:
Napoleon presents 36 paintings to the Mainz département capital; founding of the Gemäldegalerie (painting gallery). Exhibition of Roman finds on display in an “Antiques Hall”.

1841:
Art dealer M. von Metzler, who moved from Baden-Baden to Mainz, donates paintings.

1895:
Copper engraving collection and the painting collection merge.

1903:
A. M. Laské donates around 13,000 prints and drawings.

1937:
The antiquity museum moves into the former royal stables, the "Golden-Ross-Kaserne", at Große Bleiche.

1938-45:
Most of the museum’s exhibits are saved in the war as they were put into storage but the building is destroyed.

From 1950:
Inner wing of building rebuilt as storage and restoration of front of building with the aid of the French military government.

1962:
Re-opening of restored museum complex.

1967:
The state of Rhineland-Palatinate takes over the museum; the antiquities museum and the painting gallery merge to form the "Mittelrheinischen Landesmuseum Mainz". (Central Rhenish Mainz State Museum).

1978:
Restoration of building wing at the Schießgartenstraße and building of an exhibition pavilion in courtyard.

1986:
Museum is renamed "Landesmuseum Mainz" (Mainz State Museum).

2001-2010:
Fundamentally redevelopment and renovation of the Landesmuseum Mainz.