Archaeology in Baden – Expothek¹

The exhibition starts in a mystical atmosphere: Selected objects present the early cultural history of Baden, from the Palaeolithic period (650,000 B.C.) to the Carolingians (8th century A.D.). Highlights of the exhibit include a boar's tooth wrapped in bronze wire found in Karlsruhe (1,200 - 1,100 B.C.) and the “Heidelberger Kopf” (Heidelberg head - 5th century A.D.), which once decorated the hill of a high-status, early Latène culture burial.

In the second room, visitors enter the brightly illuminated Expothek itself. It looks like a research laboratory: Interactive media tables offer a variety of research tools, quiz games, and digital puzzles. Trained employees, called Explainers, are on hand to help. They explain how the interactive tables work, and present exhibition objects to users on request – archaeology you can touch!

Virtual reality (VR) sets new standards for museum exhibitions in the third room, the Expolab. Three scenarios visualise the contexts where the original objects displayed here were first used. When visitors put on their VR goggles, the real room disappears, as the objects all around are placed in their original contexts and a thrilling story begins ...