| Heinrich Schliemann Museum | |
| Address: | Lindenallee 1 17219 Ankershagen/Mecklenburg |
| Location Country: | Germany |
| Coordinates: | 53.4839°N 12.958°W |
| Website: | https://www.schliemann-museum.de/home/ |
The Heinrich Schliemann Museum is a cultural site in Ankershagen, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is a museum about the life and work of the businessman and amateur archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann (1822–1890), in the building, formerly a rectory, where Schliemann spent his childhood years.
Heinrich Schliemann was born in Neubukow in 1822. His father was a pastor; the family moved to this 18th-century rectory in 1823. He lived here until 1832, a year after the death of his mother, when he moved to Kalkhorst to live with his father's brother. From 1834 he attended school in Neustrelitz.[1]
The museum was opened in 1980.
There is a permanent exhibition, in ten themed rooms, about his childhood, the subsequent years including periods as a businessman in Russia and banker in America, and his work as an amateur archaeologist, discovering the Mycenaean culture and excavating the site of Troy.[2] Temporary exhibitions, about Schliemann or a different topic, are held on the attic floor.[3]
The museum has been established as a centre for Schliemann research. Its archive includes Schliemann's original letters, and copies of his 18 excavation diaries. The Heinrich-Schliemann-Gesellschaft (Heinrich Schliemann Society), founded in 1991, gives regular lectures about his life and work.[4] [5]