The Archäologisches Museum Hamburg is Hamburg's leading archaeological museum. Inaugurated in 1898, the museum's collection consists of over 2.5 million exhibits, making it one of the largest in Germany. Preserves artifacts from prehistory and protohistory of the northern German territory, with particular attention to the origins of the city of Hamburg. To make the visit more understandable, current and closer to visitors, the museum's collection is not organized from a chronological point of view, but from a thematic point of view: it is in fact grouped into six large areas, relating to materials, food, violence, death , innovation and mobility. The peculiarity of the Archäologisches Museum Hamburg is its propensity to be in effect an active museum: the itinerary is organized in a playful and engaging way, and visitors are encouraged to become active by touching and experimenting. This detail, combined with the numerous workshops for children that are regularly organized, has made the Archäologisches Museum Hamburg a particularly suitable museum for families.
