Akademisches Kunstmuseum

The museum was founded in 1818 and has one of the largest collections of plaster casts of ancient Greek and Roman sculptures in the world.

At this time collections of plaster casts were mainly used in the instruction of students at art academies.

Other directors of the museum were Georg Loeschcke (from 1889 to 1912), Franz Winter (from 1912 to 1929), Richard Delbrueck (from 1929 to 1940), Ernst Langlotz (from 1944 to 1966), Nikolaus Himmelmann (from 1969 to 1994) and Harald Mielsch (since 1994).

All directors, with the exception of Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl held a professorship of archaeology at the university.

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