Botanical Gardens, Museums and Public Collections

• The Old and New Botanical Gardens
  The New Botanical Garden on Lahn Hills was built in addition to the Old Botanical Garden, which is now almost two centuries old, at the foot of the upper part of town in 1977. The main focus of the 20-hectare park, with its almost 12,500 plants, is on the open-air conifers and the fern gorge. In addition, seven greenhouses, which are open to the public, contain special plants.
   
• University Museum for Graphic Art
  The Hülsen House, which was built in 1927 for the 400^th anniversary of the Philipps-Universität Marburg, combines humanities and musicology research and teaching with the University Museum for Graphic Art. Its collection mainly comprises paintings from the 17^th to 20^th centuries as well as sculptures and prints. The building also contains the antiques and cast collections of the Department of Archaeology, whose 600 exhibits constitute one of the most significant collections of its kind in Germany.
   
• University Museum for Cultural History (Landgrave's Castle)
  The University Museum for Cultural History is housed in the Wilhelmsbau of Marburg Castle, which belongs to Philipps-Universität Marburg. Its collections primarily comprise exhibits of early and pre-history, ecclesiastical history, political history, municipal culture and rural regional life.
   
• Religious Collection
  The religious collection, which is housed in the old chambers below the palace, presents the diversity of the religions of the world by means of artefacts and visual material. The exhibition halls contain numerous cult figurines, pictures and icons, scroll paintings, ritual objects and domestic altars as well as different models and replicas which describe religious life in various ways. 
   
• Ethnological Collection
  The ethnological collection allows insights into other cultures in the so-called ‘Spherical House’ in the upper part of town.
    
• Anatomicum Museum
  The historic anatomic teaching collection of the School of Medicine has been open to the public since the 90s. The human and animal organism and the development of its investigation is documented in five exhibitions in the medical-historical context of the 19^th century on the basis of a large collection of macroscopic and microscopic anatomical, embryological and comparative-anatomical specimens from two centuries of anatomical research.
   
• Mineralogical Museum
  The collection developed as an internal teaching and research collection of the institution. It currently comprises about 60,000 minerals, about 55,000 rock samples, 15,000 precious stones and 150 meteorites, of which about 3000 specimens are on exhibit, which resulted in the museum becoming the largest mineralogical collection of the state of Hesse and now enjoys the reputation of being one of the most important specialist museums in Germany. The museum is located in a building erected in 1515, which was used as the granary of the large estate of the Deutschorden German religious order.