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Kunsthalle Mannheim opened as a museum in 1909, making it one of the world's first civic collections of modern art. Key epochal works of painting from Édouard Manet to Francis Bacon as well as an outstanding sculpture collection ranging from modernism to contemporary art characterise the museum's profile. In addition to care of the collection, the development of high-calibre exhibitions and provenance research represent the focal points of the Kunsthalle's scientific work.
Kunsthalle Mannheim is opening up digital museum worlds as well as the analogue. Whether the innovative project "From Work to Display", the Museum App, our Graphic Art Table or the Collection Wall – a comprehensive range of digital offerings invite visitors to get active themselves and continue to discover the Kunsthalle afresh.

Tuesday, Thursday - Sunday & Holidays
10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Wednesday
10 a.m. - 8 p.m.

1st Wednesday of the month 10 a.m. - 10 p.m. (MVV Art Night 6 p.m. - 10 p.m.; free admission)

Monday closed

Dec 24 & 31 closed

Get your ticket

Standard: 12 euros
Reduced rate: 10 euros*
Family ticket: 20 euros (2 adults with children under 18)

Evening admission: 8 euros (valid from 1,5h before closing)

Free admission: every 1st Wednesday of the month from 6 p.m. til 10 p.m. during the MVV Art Nights

Public tours: 6 euros

Annual ticket: 30 euros (over 18, valid for one year from date of redemption)**
Annual student ticket: 15 euros (student card or evidence of current university/college registration must be shown)

Culture pass users can use their budget for admission to the Kunsthalle. The ticket purchased with it is valid for all exhibitions including the collection and special exhibitions.

*Notes on reductions and free entry
-    Reduced rates (valid documentation must be shown): school pupils aged 18 to 25, students, trainees, FSJ (social sector volunteers), seniors 65+, those receiving Unemployment Benefit II
-    Free entry (valid documentation must be shown): under 18s, members of the Förderverein Kunsthalle Mannheim, ARTgenossen, press representatives, lenders, members of the ICOM, the Deutsches Museumsbund and the Monuments Men Foundation, those holding a Museumspass, school classes accompanied by their teachers, students of art history and fine art, fine artists in the BBK, art historians in the VdK, severely disabled persons (50% or more) and their carers (with B-entry in severely disabled identity card), those holding a Kulturpass, and staff of the following museums in Mannheim: Technoseum, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Marchivum

**Notes on the purchase of annual tickets
In the ticket shop, you will be taken directly to the "Tickets" subpage of our online store. Select the desired number of annual tickets and place them in the shopping cart. You will then be redirected to the shopping cart. In the shopping cart, below the annual ticket, you will see the date selected during your purchase. However, the validity period does not begin until the day on which you exchange the print@home ticket for a personalized annual pass at the museum’s on-site ticket office. For data protection reasons, so that the annual pass can be personalized, it is necessary for the holder to identify him- or herself with an identification card or passport. Please note that payment in the online store is only possible by credit card or VPay. It is also possible, of course, to buy the annual pass at the museum ticket office.

In addition to outstanding art, visitors to Kunsthalle Mannheim can always enjoy impressive architecture: the historically evolved complex on Mannheim's most beautiful square, Friedrichsplatz, includes Hermann Billing's art nouveau building from 1907 and the Hector Building by the Hamburg-based firm gmp - by Gerkan Mark und Partner, completed in 2017. In total, the Kunsthalle provides 5,700 square metres of exhibition space.

The Hector Building
The Hector Building was designed by gmp - by Gerkan, Marg and Partners. This globally active architectural firm based in Hamburg won the international competition in 2012 with its concept of a "city within the city". Basic elements of the city such as house, passageway, square and bridge are the guiding principles of the new architecture. The large-scale project was made possible by outstanding private engagement as well as by the Kunsthalle Mannheim Foundation. SAP co-founder Dr. h.c. Hans-Werner Hector and his wife alone donated 50 million euros.

The Hector Building provides a total usable floor space of around 13,000 square metres. The exhibition rooms in this part of the Kunsthalle cover just under 3,500 square metres. The largest room is the daylight atrium, which is topped by a glass roof at a height of 21 metres and measures around 700 square metres. A total of 13 exhibition spaces, so-called cubes, are grouped around this focal point of the museum. They range between 250 and 450 square metres in size. 1,000 to 1,450 square metres of these are available for special exhibitions. Nine cubes are used primarily to present the collection in changing constellations. These include rooms for Édouard Manet ("The Execution of Emperor Maximilian", 1868-69), William Kentridge and Anselm Kiefer as well as the display depot. The diverse exhibition areas are supplemented by a roof terrace beneath open skies.

13,000 cubic metres of concrete and over 2,000 tons of structural steel were used for the shell of the building. The bronze-coloured metal mesh "Tigris", which is unique world-wide and envelops the building, was custom-made from stainless steel wires, tubes and four-chain wire rope.

The Billing Building
The art nouveau building by Karlsruhe architect Hermann Billing was opened on 1 May 1907. It was facilitated by Henriette Aberle (1847-1901), who had already bequeathed 200,000 marks to the city in 1901 "for the erection of a building for a municipal art collection". An additional grant of 350,000 marks came from the city; Kunsthalle Mannheim was initially built as an exhibition hall before it was put into operation as a museum for the municipal art collection in 1909. The building has two wings, and Billing also designed an imposing entry zone, above which a domed hall rises. Revolutionary for the time were the windowless walls on the upper floor. The exhibition rooms were lit by skylight ceilings. From 2010 to 2013, the Billing building was completely renovated. Above all, an energetic renovation of the structure enabled unrestricted links to the new building. Today, the art nouveau section provides 1,200 square metres of exhibition space.

Kunsthalle Mannheim
Friedrichsplatz 4
68165 Mannheim, Germany

Phone: +49 621 293 6423
E-Mail: info@kuma.art

Kunsthalle Mannheim
Friedrichsplatz 4
68165 Mannheim
Phone +49 621 293 6413
Fax +49 621 293 6412
kunsthalle@mannheim.de

VAT identification number: DE 143 845 211

The Kunsthalle Mannheim is an in-house operation and is represented by the Director, Mr. Johan Holten. Pursuant to Section 96 (1) No. 3 GemO Baden-Württemberg, the company is part of the special assets of the City of Mannheim.

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Friedrichsplatz 4
68165 Mannheim
Phone +49 621 293 6413
Fax +49 621 293 6412
kunsthalle@mannheim.de

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