The Museum am Dom (Museum by the Cathedral) of the Würzburg Diocese shows art without any art historical, national, religious or ideological demarcation lines. Works are presented there by contemporary, internationally acclaimed artists as well as masters of the Romanesque, Gothic and Baroque Periods. What the Museum am Dom endeavors to convey, in an exciting juxtaposition of old and modern art, is what these artists actually had in mind.

 
Art with Christian themes from the 11th to the 18th centuries is exhibited facing a larger number of works from the 20th and 21st centuries. Not only questions of the present day are to be discovered here, but also the fundamental, probing attitude of many artists seeking the meaning and object of life. This juxtaposition as an integral part of the museum conception is intended to graphically illustrate that the works of art throughout the ages express the deliberations on the situation at that time and also the questions thus triggered.

Within modern art, the focus of collecting has been turned on works done in the former German Democratic Republic. The existential questions and spiritual approaches tangible there as well as the borrowing from Christian iconography allow the museum to become a place to exchange ideas even for people for whom the Christian faith and what it represents is alien or has become alien.

In the wide span of art from past epochs, Franconian art around 1600, alongside Tilman Riemenschneider's works, is given pre-eminence. That period saw far-reaching artistic creation, since Bishop Julius Echter (1573 - 1617) in his counter-reformation of the church put his trust precisely in the power of pictures. This view of triggering and accompanying processes of change ? not only in the Church, but in life altogether - permits a direct inner relationship to be linked to the art of our times.

The Museum am Dom updates art of the past, leading to a debate with the present. This reveals a continuity that can be comprehended through all the centuries. Art has to do with man, shedding light on the present and conjuring up visions. With the high artistic quality of the works presented, the Museum am Dom intends to address the existential significance of people's questions regarding their lives, their world and their God Here, too, the Würzburg Diocese perceives its responsibility by accompanying people in their search for answers to precisely these questions.

Open
Tuesday to Sunday
1st April - 31st October 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
1st November - 31st March 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Contact
To obtain information and to reserve guided group tours
Museum am Dom
Domschulstrasse 2
D - 97070 Würzburg
Tel. +49 (0)931 / 386 65 600
Fax +49 (0)931 / 386 65 609

www.museum-am-dom.de
museen[at]bistum-wuerzburg.de