Walk to explore the city
The morning in Mainz
Discover the well-known Mainz old town with its beautiful half-timbered houses. Worthwhile are also the various Mainz museums. Of course, a detour to the cathedral should not be missed.
Walk to explore the city
Discover the well-known Mainz old town with its beautiful half-timbered houses. Worthwhile are also the various Mainz museums. Of course, a detour to the cathedral should not be missed.
The old centre of Mainz with its medieval cathedral, the Electoral Palace, patrician town houses, narrow lanes, cobblestone streets, and beautiful squares, reflects the fascinating history of the city. Modern landmark buildings include the City Hall, designed by the Danish architect Arne Jacobsen and built in 1971, the "Am Brand" shopping centre, the Rheingoldhalle conference centre, and Fort Malakoff. Walking through Mainz means walking through 2000 years of history and cultural life, Golden Ages, and times of upheaval and utter…
"This cathedral above the Rhine Valley with all of its might and glory would have remained in my memory even if I had never seen it again," wrote the German author Anna Seghers. The majestic Cathedral of Mainz is a key feature of the cityscape even today – over a thousand years after its construction. Mainz, located at the intersection of important trade routes and the place where Saint Boniface worked and lived, became an important centre of Christianity from 746/47. The city was eventually promoted to the Metropolitan Archdiocese of…
The carnival museum, which opened in 2004, presents the history of carnival in Mainz to visitors. From jester's caps, medals, guard uniforms and costumes to songbooks, programs and historical video and audio documents to excerpts from the famous television sessions “Mainz, wie es singt und lacht” (Mainz, as it sings and laughs), the exhibition offers a lively slice of Mainz history and culture. The exhibits document carnival from its beginnings in 1837 to the present day. The political and literary tradition dates back to the…
The Gutenberg Museum moved to its new interim location on November 23, 2024. You can now visit the exhibition "Gutenberg-Museum MOVED" at the Natural History Museum, Reichklarastraße 1, in the city centre of Mainz. One of the world's oldest museums for printing, the Gutenberg Museum invites visitors on a journey through four millennia of book, printing, and script culture. From cuneiform inscriptions to modern typography, from manuscripts to printing presses, from a reconstruction of Gutenberg's workshop and two original…
The Episcopal Cathedral and Diocesan Museum extends over a floor space of 3000 square metres and is thus the second largest diocesan museum in Germany. It features a unique sequence of rooms from the early, high, and late Middle Ages in which works of art dating from 500 to 1500 CE are on display. The ground floor is reserved for special exhibitions. In the basement of the museum, visitors walk through early and late medieval vaulted cellars where artefacts of Roman Mainz, and the Romanesque and Gothic periods are exhibited. On the floor…