City Museum Simeonstift - Trier

The Stadtmuseum Simeonstift Trier is a versatile city museum that presents the art and cultural history of Trier from the Middle Ages to the 21st century .

Housed in an 11th-century Romanesque monastery building next to the Porta Nigra , the museum offers a rich collection of paintings, sculptures, crafts, Coptic textiles, furniture and East Asian art objects.

The permanent collection comprises around 900 objects illustrating Trier's 2,000-year history. Highlights include original footage of the Steipe and the Petrusbrunnen , the market cross from the 10th century, city models of Trier around 1800 and after the Second World War, and the "Trier-Kino" with around 80 short films from 1904 to the present.

Willem Vandenameele