Museum sights in Mainz
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Landesmuseum Mainz
The rich and far-reaching collection of the Landesmuseum Mainz, housed in the former prince-elector's stables, traces the region's cultural history from the Stone Age to the present. Treasures include the richly festooned facade of the Kaufhaus am Brand, a 14th-century trading house, and the famous Jupitersäule (on display again in 2010), a Roman triumphal column from the 1st century. Also of special interest are Dutch and Flemish paintings, faience and art-nouveau glass.
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Druckladen
In the Gutenberg museum's Druckladen, across tiny Seilergasse, you can try out Gutenberg's technology yourself - on the condition that you're at least five years old. You'll be issued with a smock (the unique odour of printers' ink may, for many, conjure up the nobility of making the written word available to the masses, but the gloop is hell to get out of fabric) and instructed in the art of hand-setting type - backwards, of course.
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Gutenberg Museum
A heady experience for anyone excited by books, the Gutenberg Museum takes a panoramic look at the technology that made the world as we know it - including this guidebook - possible. Highlights include medieval manuscripts and early printed masterpieces - kept safe in a vault - such as Gutenberg's original 42-line Bible. Many of the signs are in English; a quarter-hour film is available in seven languages.
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Museum für Antike Schiffahrt
In 1981 excavations for a hotel unearthed the remains of five spectacular wooden ships of the Romans' Rhine flotilla, used around AD 300 to thwart Germanic tribes trying to intrude upon Roman settlements. They are now on display, along with two full-size replicas, in the Museum für Antike Schiffahrt.
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