Collections & Museum
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Archaeological Museum

In addition to Greek and Roman artefacts, which are the main focus of the collection, the collection also includes artefacts from early European and Asia Minor cultures as well as neighbouring cultural areas. Chronologically, the spectrum ranges from the 8th millennium BC to the High Middle Ages.
Museum director: Prof. Dr. Achim Lichtenberger 
Curator: Dr. H.-Helge Nieswandt

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Slide Collection House Research

The Institute for Cultural Anthropology / European Ethnology has a collection of 10,000 glass plates (large-format slides). The photographs, taken between the 1920s and 1960s, mainly show house gables and views of farmhouses from Central and Northern Europe.
Head of collection: Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Timm

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Teaching Collection of the Division of Prehistoric and Early Historic Archaeology

The collection includes archaeological finds - originals and replicas - from the Palaeolithic to modern times, as well as animal bones, minerals and individual ethnographic comparative pieces that are regularly used in teaching. The focus is on Europe, but objects from overseas are also represented. Numerous pieces come from historical collections and are also interesting in terms of research history.
Head of collection: Prof. Dr. Ralf Gleser
Collection Officer: Dr. Claudia Tappert

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Coin Collection of the Research Centre for Ancient Numismatics

About 10,000 coins, covering all periods of ancient coinage history, belong to the collection: the range extends from the earliest Greek coins of archaic times to the Islamic period. The thematic focus is on the so-called Roman Provincials and the coins of Sicily. Since 2016, the collection has been successively digitised and is available online in the Digital Coin Cabinet.
Head of collection: Prof. Dr. Achim Lichtenberger
Curator: Dr. Katharina Martin

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Wolf Dietrich Collection

The Institute for Musicology houses the estate of the ethnomusicologist Wolf Dietrich with a comprehensive ethnomusicological research library, commercial sound recordings, a sound archive with field research recordings and documentation, musical instruments and sound studio equipment. A regional focus of the collection is Southeast Europe/Foreign Orient.
Head of collection: Prof. Dr. Ralf Jäger

Eckhard Neubauer Library

The library of the renowned orientalist and musicologist Eckhard Neubauer (Frankfurt) is one of the most extensive collections internationally and unique beyond Germany on the musical cultures of Arabia, Persia and Turkey; there are also holdings on Southeast Europe and Central Asia. The collection includes purely music-theoretical and music-historical writings as well as philological and cultural-historical works that are hardly available in German libraries and have long been out of print in their countries of origin. These also include a number of very rare recordings and own recordings of Turkish music from Eastern Anatolia.
Head of collection: Prof. Dr. Ralf Jäger

Dörner Archive

Friedrich Karl Dörner founded the Asia Minor Research Centre at the University of Münster in 1968 as an ancient historian, classical philologist, epigraphist and archaeologist. Since Dörner's death, his archive has been kept in the rooms of the research centre. It includes countless photos, slides, postcards, travel notes, photocopies, newspaper articles and research contributions by and about Friedrich Karl Dörner and documents his early journeys to Turkey in the 1930s and his later stays on excavations throughout Asia Minor. The collection is currently being digitised.