Liechtenstein National Museum

The Liechtenstein National Museum was founded in 1890 and it comprises four parts: the main museum, a Postal Museum, a Treasure Chamber and a Farm House Museum. The Liechtenstein National Museum has five buildings. The main museum shows more than 3000 objects in about 40 galleries. The main Museum is divided into three parts. Two original medieval buildings house permanent exhibitions about the history, culture, archaeology, landscape, costumes of Liechtenstein and a new building which is cast into the mountains is used for a permanent exhibition about the nature of Liechtenstein and other exhibitions of special themes.
The Postal Museum and the Treasure Chamber are situated in a building called the building of the Englishman because it was erected in 1920 by an Englishman. In 1930 the Liechtenstein Postal Museum was opened and in 2006 it became part of the Liechtenstein National Museum. This museum has the whole series of all the stamps made in Liechtenstein from 1912 till today. In Liechtenstein it is a tradition that stamps are designed by artists. This museum has all the drafts of the famous artists who made stamps. The gift shop of this museum is also quite sizable and worth paying a visit.
The Treasure Chamber was created in 2015. It’s the only Treasure Chamber in the whole Alps where one can see the treasures of the royal family, special things from the Princely Collection and objects from the space. It is the only museum which has two moon stones from the mission Apollo 11 in 1969 and Apollo 17 in 1973 respectively.
The Farm House was constructed in 1518. It used a technique typical in the region called ‘block method’, stacking logs on top of each other to from the walls. The house was moveable and the wooden beams were numbered. It was moved several times in 1687, 1793 and 1991. Some of the very latest concepts for low-energy buildings and sustainable construction were already being applied here some 500 years ago. The house provides a very interesting inside of how people lived in Liechtenstein 100 years ago.

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Dr. Rainer Vollkommer

Director

Dr. Rainer VollkommerDirector

Prof. Dr. Rainer Vollkommer received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1984 at Lincoln College at Oxford. He also studied at Sorbonne in Paris, the Ecole du Louvre and the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris. Since 2009, he has served as Honorary Professor for Ancient History under consideration of the material Artefacts at the Technische Universität at Dresden. He is fluent in German, English and French, and was a leading European archaeologist, writer and scholar. His major fields of interests include classical archaeology, Greek Art, history of art, Byzantine and prehistory.
Since 2011, he has been Director of the Liechtenstein National Museum. From 2002 to 2011 he was the Director of the National Museum of Prehistory and archaeological archive of Saxony at Dresden. From 2012 to 2015, he was the President of the organisation of museums and castles Euregio Lake of Constance (over 100 museums and institutions of the lake of Constance region: Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein). He is also the President of EEN (European Exhibition Network) since 2019.