Museum Ulm

The Museum Ulm (currently closed) is a genre-defying museum of art and cultural history with outstanding collections of national and international heritage. Located in the center of Ulm and housed in a historic building complex from the 16th-20th century, the Museum Ulm presents 40,000 years of art, culture and design history. One of the oldest pieces in the collection is the “Lion Man” (Löwenmensch), a splendid mammoth-ivory figure that is considered among the earliest-known representations of a human-animal hybrid — a spectacular discovery from the Ice Age. The museum is also noted for its strong collection of German expressionist art, with pieces by Emile Nolde, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and others, its post-war collection of prints and drawings, and extensive holdings of late Gothic art. Alongside its permanent collection, the Museum Ulm regularly hosts temporary exhibitions ranging from local history to international art. Since 2023, the museum has been undergoing renovations; a temporary exhibition “A New Spelling of Museum. Part 2: M-Z” will display highlights from the collection at the nearby Kunsthalle Weishaupt beginning 23 November 2024. The collection of the former Ulm School of Design (Hochschule für Gestaltung, HfG), remains on view in a permanent exhibition “From the zero hour to 1968” in the academy’s original building.