National Museum of Archaeology, History and Art
Luxembourg's national museum on the Fëschmaart, spanning prehistory, Gallo-Roman finds and fine art.
Known today as the Nationalmusée um Fëschmaart, the museum stands on the old fish market in the heart of the upper town, on a site occupied by a group of historic houses that were joined to a modern wing. Its origins lie in the nineteenth-century collections of the Société archéologique, and the institution took its present national role after the Second World War. A major extension designed by Christian Bauer opened in 2002, digging galleries deep into the rock behind the old façades.
The collections are arranged over several levels, beginning underground with prehistory and the Gallo-Roman period. Highlights include the Loschbour skeleton of a Mesolithic hunter, mosaics and funerary monuments from Roman Luxembourg, and the Titelberg finds. Upper floors carry medieval and modern history, decorative arts, coins, and a fine-art collection with works by Cranach, Aelbrecht Bouts and the Luxembourgish painter Joseph Kutter, alongside a changing programme of temporary exhibitions.
Highlights
- Loschbour skeleton and other Mesolithic finds
- Gallo-Roman mosaics, sculpture and the Titelberg material
- Fine-art rooms with Cranach, Bouts and Joseph Kutter
- Christian Bauer's galleries cut into the rock behind historic façades
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