COMBI-TICKET
RHEINISCHES
LANDESMUSEUM
MUSEUM AM DOM
STADTMUSEUM
SIMEONSTIFT
Adults
€18.00
€12.00
€7.00
€8.00
Reduced*
€16.00
€11.00
€5.50
€6.00
Family ticket I
1 adult, up to 4 children
€18.00
€12.00
€7.00
€8.00
Family ticket II
2 adults, up to 4 children
€36.00
€24.00
€14.00
€16.00
Groups
12 or more persons
€16.00
€11.00
€5.50
€6.00
€6.00
€4.00
€3.50
€4.00
PROGRAMME SUGGESTION FOR DAY TRIPS
9 am
12.30 pm 2 pm 4 pm Guided theme walking tour “Trier – Centre Of Antiquity” with visit to the special
exhibition in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum “Nero – Emperor, Artist and Tyrant”.
Duration: approx. 3 hours, including 90-minute tour of the special exhibition.
Lunch in a selected restaurant in the Trier old town. Meeting at the Museum am Dom and tour through that segment of the special exhibition, “Nero and the Christians”, followed by a short walk to the Stadtmuseum Simeonstift
with tour through “Hedonism and Crime. The Myth Nero”.
Duration: approx. 105 minutes, including 15-minute walk.
Free Time
PROGRAMME SUGGESTION FOR ONE OVERNIGHT STAY from E149.00
1 overnight stay with breakfast in a selected good hotel in Trier (per person in double room)
1 welcome 3-course dinner in a selected restaurant
1 combi-ticket for the exhibition “Nero – Emperor, Artist and Tyrant”
1 tour through the Rheinisches Landesmuseum (90 min)
1 tour through the exhibition in the Museum am Dom, Stadtmuseum Simeonstift (105 min)
PROGRAMME SUGGESTION FOR TWO OVERNIGHT STAYS from E269.00
2 overnight stays with breakfast in a selected good hotel in Trier (per person in double room)
1 welcome 3-course dinner in a selected restaurant
1 guided theme walking tour through Trier “Trier – Centre Of Antiquity” (120 min)
1 admission to Imperial Baths
1 combi-ticket for the exhibition “Nero – Emperor, Artist and Tyrant”
1 tour through the exhibition in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum (90 min)
1 tour through the exhibition in the Museum am Dom, Stadtmuseum Simeonstift (105 min)
1 guided wine tasting in a winery (6 wines)
1 rustic vintner’s meal (pork steak marinated in Riesling and grilled over vine wood)
We would be pleased to compile individual offers for these and other programmes for you on request.
Group packages can be booked for 12 or more persons for the duration of the exhibition.
WELCOME TO TRIER – CENTRE OF ANTIQUITY
ENTRANCE FEES
School students as a class,
12 or more students
Free admission for children under 6.
Audio guide included in the admission price. It is not possible to book audio guides in
advance.
The combi-ticket entitles visitors to
one-time admission to the three
participating museums for the
entire duration of the special exhibition.
RHEINISCHES LANDESMUSEUM TRIER
TOURS
Combined tours through more than one museum or tours through individual museums
can also be booked separately.
Grand combination tour *
·All three museums (195 min). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E180.00
Medium combination tour *
·Two museums, including Landesmuseum (135 min). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E135.00
Small combination tour *
·Stadtmuseum Simeonstift and
Museum am Dom (105 min). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E118.00
Rheinisches Landesmuseum (90 min) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E95.00
Stadtmuseum Simeonstift or Museum am Dom Museum (75 min) . . . . . . . . E85.00
* All students, trainees, official volunteers and military, unemployed, severely
disabled, with ID respectively Publisher.
Aachen,
Maastricht
Weimarer Allee 1, 54290 Trier
landesmuseum-trier@gdke.rlp.de
www.landesmuseum-trier.de
MUSEUM AM DOM TRIER
Bischof-Stein-Platz 1, 54290 Trier
museum@bistum-trier.de
www.museum-am-dom-trier.de
TRIER
Brussels,
Liege
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Commemoration of Emperor Nero in Late
Antiquity: Contorniate with portrait of
Nero. Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier.
STADTMUSEUM SIMEONSTIFT TRIER
Luxembourg
Simeonstraße 60, 54290 Trier
stadtmuseum@trier.de
www.museum-trier.de
Tours in foreign languages: plus €15.00. Prices plus admission.
Groups up to 25 persons, school classes according to class size. Museum educational staff offers, especially
for school classes, and barrier-free offers available. *Including 15/30/45-minute walk and transfer time
CONCEPT & DESIGN: WWW.BUERO-WILHELM.DE
PROGRAMME SUGGESTIONS FOR GROUPS
Cologne,
Coblenz
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Frankfurt-Hahn
Mainz,
Frankfurt/M.,
Mannheim
Saarbrücken
Metz
EMPEROR, ARTIST AND TYRANT
Trier Tourismus und Marketing GmbH
Tourist Information Department
Tel. +49(0)651 97808-52
nero@trier-info.de, www.trier-info.de
Gold coin with Nero and his mother Agrippina.
Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier.
www.nero-ausstellung.de
PUBLISHER: Generaldirektion Kulturelles Erbe Rheinland-Pfalz, Direktion Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier, Weimarer Allee 1, D-54290 Trier
As of Summer 2015. Alterations reserved.
INFORMATION AND BOOKING
TRIER MAY 14 – OCTOBER 16, 2016
SERVICE INFORMATION
FOR TRAVEL ORGANISERS AND GROUPS
NERO RECONSIDERED
MUSEUM AM DOM TRIER
AN EXHIBITION IN THREE MUSEUMS
Hardly any Roman emperor
has generated as much interest as Nero (reigned AD 54–
68). For the first time in Central Europe, a large exhibition
to be held at three different
museums with numerous select exhibits from Germany
and abroad will be devoted to
his life and the consequences
of his rule but also to his image today.
Today, the emperor is primarily associated with extravagance, megalomania and
cruelty.
NERO AND THE
CHRISTIANS
Current research, however,
paints Nero in a very different light. As many as three
museums in Trier, the largest
Roman city north of the Alps,
will devote an exhibition to
the controversial emperor
in 2016. The Rheinisches
Landesmuseum Trier will
show NERO – “EMPEROR,
ARTIST AND TYRANT”, the
Museum am Dom “NERO
AND THE CHRISTIANS and
the Stadtmuseum Simeonstift
“HEDONISM AND CRIME.
THE MYTH OF NERO”.
Terra sigillata bowl: Female martyr between two lions.
Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz.
Photo: RGZM/Lübke & Wiedemann, Stuttgart.
The Museum am Dom focuses on the early Christian
persecutions under Emperor
Nero, and uses them as an
opportunity to examine the
relationship between the
Christians, the Roman state
and its religion. The exhibition
shows and analyses ancient
depictions of sacrifies and
Roman sacrificial practices,
demonstrating how the conflict with the Christians arose.
Based on the martyrdoms of
the Apostles Peter and Paul
in Nero’s time, the exhibition
illuminates the regionally and
qualitatively quite different
phases of Christian persecutions.
The topicality of the subject
is illustrated by contrasting
ancient with present-day religious persecution. Emperor
Constantine’s tolerance edict
led to a new situation for the
Christians. Under Emperor
Theodosius, Christianity was
raised to the status of state
religion, and the formerly
persecuted became themselves persecutors. Along with
archaeological objects and
models, the exhibition places
a particular focus on medieval
and early modern depictions
of Christian martyrs in the
Roman era.
Gold coin with portrait of Nero. Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier.
Battle scenes from the Batavi and Treveri uprising in 69/70 after Nero’s death.
Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier.
RHEINISCHES LANDESMUSEUM TRIER
STADTMUSEUM SIMEONSTIFT TRIER
NERO – EMPEROR,
ARTIST AND TYRANT
HEDONISM AND
CRIME. THE MYTH
OF NERO
The large presentation will
show Nero’s carrier chronologically: the caesura in the
first years of his reign came
with the murder of his power-hungry mother Agrippina.
The emperor’s passion was for
the arts; he himself performed
as actor, musician and chariot
driver, and comissioned the
construction of the enormous
domus aurea, his Golden Palace. The palace and grounds
were erected in a part of
Rome that had earlier been
destroyed by a devastating
fire. The Trier region was also
sucked into the politically
desperate situation when the
Celtic Treveri rose up following Nero’s suicide, leading
to a final act in the empire’s
crisis – this, too, is a theme of
the exhibition.
Few figures from Antiquity
have experienced a similar
career in visual art as Nero.
Above all, the acts of cruelty
attributed to him – the dissection of the corpse of his
mother Agrippina, the forced
suicide of Seneca or the fatal
kick in the abdomen of his
pregnant wife Sabina Poppaea, have determined the
image of the Roman emperor
over centuries. The net of passion for grandeur, decadence
and cruelty entangling Nero
and his rule has also inspired
numerous artists.
Porta Nigra
Touristinfo
Main Station
MUSEUM AM DOM
Main Market
Cathedral
Imperial Baths
Imperial Throne
Room
Forum Baths
Roman Bridge
Barbara Baths
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RHEINISCHE S LANDE SMUSEUM
Imperial Baths
Amphitheater
200 m
Porta Nigra
Trier was the largest Roman city in Central Europe; nowhere else north of the Alps can the Roman
era be experienced so authentically as here. Trier fascinates at every turn with the monumental
Roman structures: Porta Nigra, Amphitheater, Imperial and Barbara Baths, Constantine’s palace
audience hall and the Roman Bridge are UNESCO World Heritage sites.
NERO – THE EXHIBITION EXPERIENCE
2016 IN TRIER
Marble portrait of Nero. Copy: Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier.
Original: Munich, Staatliche Antikensammlung und Glyptothek.
It is the last years of Nero’s
reign that have fashioned
today’s image of a tyrant,
persecutor of Christians and
arsonist. This image spread
as far back as the writings of
ancient authors such as Tacitus and Suetonius, members
of the aristocracy whose way
of thinking was anathema to
Nero. The exhibition shows
his ascent as successor to the
throne, his reign and its violent end. Nero was extremely
popular among his subjects
for much of his reign. Only later on did he lose his sense of
reality. The development from
the young promising heir to
the throne to the hated tyrant
is charted in more than 400
exhibits from Germany and
abroad.
S TADTMUSEUM SIMEONS T IF T
The Stadtmuseum Simeonstift
Trier will undertake for the
first time a comprehensive
evaluation of this pictorial
tradition. Paintings, graphics,
photos, films and operas from
the earliest surviving depictions of the Middle Ages to the
Nero image that has featured
in the more recent and most
past will bring this ever-changing reception history to life.
Illustration from Roman de la Rose:
Nero views the corpse of his mother Agrippina, 1519.
© Pierpont Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.948,
Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, Graz 1993, fol. 63r.
LOCATION OF THE MUSEUMS The three museums Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier, Stadtmuseum Simeonstift Trier and Museum am Dom Trier
are within easy walking distance. The route between the museums leads through the attractive Trier old town past
Roman monuments of the UNESCO World Heritage Register.
GROUPS Groups of 12 or more persons are requested to book in advance – also without a tour. Group tickets for certain time
slots and authorised exhibition tours are allocated exclusively by Trier Tourismus and Marketing GMbH.
OPENING HOURS OF THE EXHIBITION
For groups, daily from 9 am to 6 pm; individual guests, Tue.-Sun. 10 am to 6 pm.
BUS PARKING
Bus parking spaces are available near the museums (Weberbach, fees apply). The Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier
has one bus space for guests to disembark and board; additional spaces for disembarking and boarding near the
Porta Nigra (Franz-Ludwig-Strasse).
NERO ANTIKENCARD
The NERO ANTIKENCARD BASIC you can visit two Roman monuments of your choice and the Nero exhibition in the
Landesmuseum. The NERO ANTIKENCARD PREMIUM includes admission to four Roman structures, the Nero exhibition in the Landesmuseum, Roman Villa Otrang and the Kastel Hermit’s Cell in the vicinity of Trier.
NERO ANTIKENCARD BASIC
€19.00
NERO ANTIKENCARD PREMIUM
€25.00
NERO ANTIKENCARD GROUP *
€17.00
* Admission to two Roman monuments and the Landesmuseum for a group of at least
10 persons. Valid one week from the time of purchase, no additional reductions.
The ANTIK ENCARD is available at all Roman monuments, at the Rheinisches
Landesmuseum and at Tourist-Information Trier.
With the NERO ANTIKENCARD BASIC and PREMIUM also give you reduced admission to the Nero exhibition in the
Stadtmuseum Simeonstift and to the Museum am Dom as well as to the multimedia theatre “In the Realm of Shades” in
the Landesmuseum and a 10% reduction on toga and event tours by Tourist Information Trier.
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