About Us

Akademisches Kunstmuseum - Antikensammlung der Universität Bonn
Project management: Dr. Dieter Bellinger, Prof. Dr. Frank Rumscheid, Dr. Kornelia Kressirer
Programming: Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Freundel, Ilmenau

Academic Editorial: Dr. Dieter Bellinger (Roman Republic, numismatic material), Dr. Sonja Ziesmann (Greeks, Roman Imperials), Prof. Dr. Wolfram Weiser (Roman Imperials, 238-269 AD, Roman Provincials, modern Imitations)
Supported by Benjamin Geißler M. A., Michael Jennes, Jürgen Lorenz M. A., Jan Marius Müller M. A., Reinhold Schwarz, and Rahel Otte M.A.
Photographs: Robert Dylka et al. (see each object entry's print view for details).

Layout: Goldland Media
Maps: Goldland Media, Dr. Jürgen Freundel

 

+++ The "New Digital Coin Cabinet" is currently under construction. +++

 

History of the Collection

The University of Bonn was founded in 1818. Only one year later, the university bought the well known coin collection of Canonicus Franz Pick (1750-1819) in a public auction, held the 27th August 1819. The collection consisted of five gold, 500 silver and more than 2000 bronze coins. Over decades F. Pick had collected objects of art, especially antiques and Roman coins, coming from hoards in the north of Bonn, the region of the former roman legion camp. The first director of the "Akademisches Kunstmuseum" (AKM) of the university, F.G. Welcker, augmented the collection in the following decades, also by buying coins found in and around Bonn. Later coin hoards came to the "Museum Rheinscher Alterthümer", wich was established in 1822, the predecessor of the "Rheinsches Landesmuseum Bonn". The first catalogue of the coin collection of the "Akademisches Kunstmuseum", written in 1836, assembled, more than 6,000 coins. These coins are still the essential part of the actual coin collection of the AKM. This collection – together with Greek coins, donated in the beginning of the last century, und some new acqusitions – was taken 2010 in a digital database and is therefore now open for the students of the university as well as for extern visitors.