Schatzkammer der Stadtbibliothek
The Treasury of the City Library (Schatzkammer der Stadtbibliothek, fee) exhibits rarities among its vast collection of manuscripts, documents, and early printings. In the exhibition room are manuscripts, early documents, early printed works, Gutenberg Bible, baroque globes and early maps. The oldest book is from 719, but it is easily outshone by the Ada Gospel (c. 800) with its splendid illuminations and magnificent book cover from 1499 (see inside back cover) or by the Codex Egberti from c. 985 with its fifty-six miniatures.

The Gutenberg Bible is one of the almost 2,500 15th century incunabulae owned by the library, the best of which are shown besides valuable letters and two 17th century globes.
Address: Weberbach 25
Tel: +49 – 651 - 718-2430
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University Archaeological Collection
The University (Archäologische Original- und Abgußsammlung des archäologischen Institut der Universität Trier, Trier-Tarforst) owns a collection of plaster replicas of Greek and Roman statues and a growing collection of originals from Italy and Egypt (no fee).
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Spielzeugmuseum Trier (Toy museum)
The private and small Toy Museum of Trier is really fascinating, not only for kids. You can admire toys of more than 200 years. Toys are reflecting former times in many aspects: our personal story as well as the history of our society. In the museum you will see simple wooden toys of the 18th and 19th century, the first playcars with the industrialization at the turn of the century, more refined mechanics in the fifties, armies of tin soldiers, dolls, stuffed animals, toys from the Third Reich, a complete zoo, wind-up and electric trains and of course the computer and startreck influenced toys of today. The Toy Museum in Nagelstrasse is the most recent among the Trier museums.
Address: Nagelstraße 4-5, 54290 Trier
Tel: +49 (0) 651 7 58 50
Fax: +49 (0) 651 9 94 38 75
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Freilichtmuseum Roscheider Hof (Open Air museum)
This open air museum, located 6 km outside Trier in Konz, presents the folk culture of the European Saar-Lor-Lux regio. Really great for children, they will discover how people in the Moselle region lived 200 years ago: how schoolrooms looked like, what people bought or produced, what kind of animals they had and how a farmhouse looked like etc.
Address: Roscheider Hof e.V. , D-54329 Konz,
Tel: +49-6501-92710
Fax: +49-6501-927111
Email: blumentb@fh-trier.de
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URL: http://www.roscheiderhof.de

Rheinisches Landesmuseum
The Archaeological Museum (Landesmuseum, fee) near the Imperial Baths has the richest collection of Roman finds in Germany; it is so rich, in fact, that only a small part of the collection can be exhibited. You will find art and artefacts from prehistoric, Roman, early Christian and medieval periods.

The inner courtyard, used as a storage place for sarcophagi, columns, capitels, paving stones, and building blocks is in itself worth looking at, if only because of the painted replica of the 23 m (76 ft) Igel Column (Igeler Säule, a Roman burial monument; the original is 8 km (5 miles) outside of Trier). On the inside, the series of burial monuments then displays patches of original Roman paint on scenes of everyday life in Roman times (school, hunting, hairdressing, feasting, dancing, rent collecting).

The museum displays magnificent mosaics such as a Roman chariot driver, an exquisite glass collection, the most valuable piece of which is the cage cup from Piesport-Niederemmel, pagan and Christian finds, and, above all, one of the top Roman coin collections worldwide. Stone-age, Celtic, Merovingian, medieval, and early modern artefacts and artwork round off the treasures of the museum.
Address: Weimarer Allee 1
Tel: +49 – 651 – 9774 - 0
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Domschatzkammer (Cathedral Treasury)
Entrance from the interior of the cathedral. The Cathedral Treasury (Domschatzkammer, fee) does not represent a museum but a collection of religious artefacts from over the centuries which could still be employed in church services: twelfth-century censors, baroque monstrances, croziers from seven centuries, to name a few.

The most prized object, and one of the oldest, is the St. Andrew portable altar from the tenth century, an oaken shrine covered with ivory plates, enamel and gold filigree work and containing the sole of St. Andrew's Sandal. Even older are the Holy Nail relic with its Carolingian reliquary and a fifth-century Byzantine reliquary procession cut from an unusually large elephant tusk. Also of great interest are the camel-hair cap and the ninth-century prayer book of St. Simeon, in whose honor the St. Simeon's churches were built into the Porta Nigra.

Rounding off the collection are several illuminated gospels from the twelfth century with elaborate book covers. Cathedral tours: reservations in the Cathedral office.
Address: Cathedral / Dom
Tel: +49 – 651 - 75801
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Karl-Marx-Haus (Karl Marx Birthhouse)
Karl Marx Museum in the birthplace of the founder of modern socialism. Is more a museum about early 19th century living rather than communism or something like that. It may come as a surprise that Karl Marx was not born in an industrial city but in Trier, which at that time (May 5, 1818) had fewer than 10,000 inhabitants. The other surprise may be that the birthplace, today's Karl Marx Museum (Karl-Marx-Haus, fee), is not to be found in Karl-Marx-Strasse but Brückenstrasse 12 (the first section was not renamed in order to keep the historical address).

The house is one of the most beautiful burgher's houses in Trier with the 1727 front section, an inner courtyard, an addition from the 1860's, and a surprisingly large garden. The museum contains principally three exhibitions: the history of early Communism and Socialism on wall charts and a display of rare early editions of Marx's writings (like the first editions of the Communist Manifesto from 1848 and Das Kapital from 1867; there is a research library, the Karl-Marx-Studienzentrum, a few houses down the street with more than 70,000 volumes); on the top floor, finally, there is a collection of original photos, documents, and manuscripts.
Address: Brückenstrasse 10
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Städtisches Museum Simeonstift
The Municipal Museum (Städtisches Museum, fee), located in the Simeon's College next to the Porta Nigra shows documents regarding the development of the city of Trier: Sculptures and paintings from the Middle Ages to Romanticism and Realism. Every now and then they offer exhibitions of contemporary art. The museum houses several collections from Trier's medieval and early modern eras, plus several outstanding donations: for example, the Schunck Collection of paintings from the Renaissance to the twentieth century and a collection of Coptic textiles dating from the third to the ninth centuries (over 300 pieces). This is complemented by Egyptian mummy portraits, Coptic statuettes, and antique oil lamps from the Mummenthey Collection of lamps. As an introduction to the Steipe knights, the four stone virtues from the Market Fountain, and the Market Cross in the former canons' dormitory, there is a large model of Trier as it appeared around 1800, featuring a text plus video film detailing the city's development following the Roman era. This development is mirrored in the exhibits as well: statues, paintings, exquisite furniture, costumes, jewelry, porcelain, household utensils.
Address: Porta Nigra Place
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Tel: +49 – 651 – 718 2449

Bischöfliches Dom- und Diözesanmuseum
The Bishop's Museum (Bischöfliches Dom- und Diözesanmuseum, fee) next to the Cathedral owns a collection of archaeological finds and Christian art. Since the major churches in Trier are on Roman sites, it comes as no surprise that the archaeological exhibits form the core of the museum.

A ceiling painting from the first quarter of the fourth century, found 3 m (10ft) under the crossing of the Cathedral, probably belonged to Constantine's palace and was put together from more than 60,000 pieces over a period of almost 40 years. The reassembled wall separating the congregation from the altar area, found in the south church of the Roman complex, forms a window into the times of Early Christianity with its touching graffiti. The unusually well preserved wall fresco with a crucifixion scene from a crypt in St. Maximin (late 9th century), a collection of Roman textiles and medieval church vestments, original Early Gothic statues from the Church of Our Lady, as well as the creations of sculptors, ivory carvers, and goldsmiths over the centuries complement the exhibits.
Address: Windstrasse 6-7
Tel: +49 651 - 7105-255
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