Roemer- Und Pelizaeus-museum Hildesheim Ggmbh

Name

Roemer- Und Pelizaeus-museum Hildesheim Ggmbh

Legal name

Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim gGmbH

Website

https://rpmuseum.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1844

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Museum and Cultural Heritage Services

NAICS

Museums (712110), Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions (7121), Museums (71211), Libraries and Archives (51921)

akta.pro primary industry

Museums & Heritage Sites (History, Science, Specialty) (BPAGAHAA)

Keywords

• Museum exhibitions
• Egyptian antiquities collection
• Museum educational programs
• Cultural heritage preservation
• Event venue rental

Headquarters

HQ city

Hildesheim

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Admission Tickets: Standard museum admission fees for visitors. No specific prices listed for general admission, though special event entry for non-members is 7.50 EUR.
2. Event Venue Rental: Weddings and events can be hosted at the museum venues. Birthday party packages offered for children and families.
3. Guided Tours and Workshops: Bookable guided tours and educational workshops for schools, families, and groups, available Tuesday-Friday 13:00-15:00 through the booking service.
4. Donations and Support: Museum accepts donations and support through 'RPM unterstützen' program. Newsletter subscription with data protection consent.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

The Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim is a non-profit universal museum that houses Germany's second-most important Egyptian collection alongside ethnological, natural history, art, and Hildesheim city history collections. It operates permanent and special exhibitions, offers guided tours and educational workshops for schools and families, hosts venue rentals for weddings and events, and conducts scholarly research including provenance investigation on collection objects.

Product overview

The Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim is a universal museum (Universalmuseum) housing one of Germany's second-most important Egyptian collections, along with collections spanning ethnology, natural history (paleontology, geology, mineralogy, zoology, botany), art, and Hildesheim city history. The museum operates a core product portfolio centered on permanent exhibitions including the newly redesigned Egypt exhibition ('Ägypten wartet auf Dich!'), the city history exhibition 'Es ist angerichtet' on food and drink, and exhibitions on Hildesheim's history. The offering extends to educational programs for children, families, and schools, event hosting services including weddings, and research activities including provenance investigation. The museum is undergoing a comprehensive transformation process to become more family-friendly while integrating its diverse collection areas into a unified visitor experience.

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Products and services

• New Egypt Permanent Exhibition (Ägypten wartet auf Dich!) A comprehensively redesigned permanent exhibition showcasing the museum's ancient Egyptian collection with innovative, colorful displays featuring audience favorites and long-hidden highlights. Open to the public visitors and tourists.
• Es ist angerichtet (Food and Drink Permanent Exhibition) A city history and ethnological permanent exhibition exploring the universal theme of eating and drinking, with information available in easy language.
• Hildesheim: Blüte – Zerstörung – Wiederaufbau (Hildesheim City History Exhibition) Permanent exhibition about the history of Hildesheim covering its bloom, destruction, and reconstruction.
• Glanzlichter der Naturfotografie (Highlights of Nature Photography Exhibition) Special exhibition featuring highlights of nature photography.
• School Programs (Guided Tours and Workshops) Educational programs and guided tours designed for school classes from primary through secondary education, aligned with curriculum objectives. Includes the new all-day program (Ganztag) co-developed with Landesmuseum Hannover.
• Children's & Family Programs (Kindergeburtstage, FamilienZeit, Forscherbogen) Educational and entertainment programs for children and families, including birthday party packages (Kindergeburtstage), Family Time sessions, the 'Mit Hildegard durchs alte Ägypten' interactive research booklet, and Wimmlinger Forscherhefte activity booklets.
• Event Venue Rental (Weddings and Private Events) Venue rental services for weddings, celebrations, and corporate events at the museum. Various rooms available for private functions; bookings coordinated through the museum's events team.
• Kuchen & Kultur Cultural Event Series Recurring cultural event series organized by the Hildesheimer Museumsverein featuring short, pointed cultural presentations with coffee and cake, covering topics such as new corporate identity, provenance of objects, and Oceania.
• Research and Provenance Investigation Services Scientific research activities including provenance investigation on objects with difficult histories, such as CT-scan analysis of Egyptian mummies, conducted in collaboration with external researchers and partner institutions.
• Museum Admission Tickets Standard museum admission tickets granting access to the museum's exhibitions. Available on-site and via online ticket booking, with the box office open Tuesday–Sunday 10:00–17:00.

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Museumsverband für Niedersachsen und Bremen e. V.coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 16 March 2026The Museumsverband awarded the RPM the Museumsgütesiegel quality certification, validating the museum's adherence to national museum standards. The association, along with the Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung and the Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, created the seal in 2006 to help museums secure and develop quality long-term.
• Landesmuseum HannovercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint education project creating an innovative out-of-school learning program for elementary school children. Combines cultural education with social participation, establishing sustainable cooperation structures between museums, schools, and two sports clubs as operators.
• Hildesheimer MuseumsvereincoreGTM or Marketing PartnerThe Hildesheim Museumsverein supports the RPM through the 'Kuchen & Kultur' event series, hosting cultural discussions at the museum with coffee and cake. The format provides cultural 'snippets' in short, pointed, dialogic presentations by museum staff.
• Alexander Ullmann (Independent Researcher)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerIndependent Egyptologist who conducted comprehensive scientific and cultural-historical analysis of the ancient Egyptian bird mummy in a MUSEALOG project, working with RPM curators.
• Kreissparkasse DiepholzminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerHosted the award ceremony for the Museumsgütesiegel on March 16 along with other Niedersachsen and Bremen museums.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Regional players

• Lippisches Landesmuseum Detmold: A regional universal museum in North Rhine-Westphalia with a comparable mix of regional history, ethnology, and natural history collections, and a similar transformation/scale profile to RPM.
• Focke-Museum Bremen: Bremen's regional museum for art, cultural history, and applied arts, with a comparable audience and programming profile, located in the same northwestern German tourism region as RPM.
• Roemer-Museum Hildesheim (Stiftung): The Roemer-Museum (the original Römer collection partner institution in the merged name) is the immediate geographic peer in Hildesheim city, sharing local tourism catchment and school audiences with RPM.

Direct peers

• Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover: Lower Saxony's state museum covering art, cultural history, and natural history, and an active education partner of RPM through the Ganztag program. Comparable in collection scope, regional audience, and educational programming.
• Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst München: Munich's State Museum of Egyptian Art is one of Germany's principal Egyptian collections and a peer benchmark for RPM's curatorial depth on Egyptology, with a comparable specialization and exhibition-led programming model.
• Übersee-Museum Bremen: A Northern German universal museum combining ethnology, natural history, and trade/commerce exhibitions. Closely comparable to RPM in scope as a regional universal museum with similar collection mix and audience model.
• MARKK Museum am Rothenbaum Hamburg: Hamburg's museum for ethnology and cultural contacts with significant holdings from Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, overlapping with RPM's ethnological collection from Alaska, South America, Africa, and China.
• Ägyptisches Museum Berlin: Berlin's Egyptian Museum holds Germany's most important Egyptian collection and is the direct reference benchmark for RPM, which houses the second most important Egyptian collection in Germany. Comparable in curatorial specialization on Egyptology, though larger and located in a major capital.

Broad incumbents

• Senckenberg Naturmuseum Frankfurt: Germany's largest natural history museum, overlapping with RPM's natural history holdings (paleontology, geology/mineralogy, zoology, botany). Functions as a broader-incumbent reference for a much larger natural history operation.

Others

• Deutsches Auswandererhaus Bremerhaven: A Northern German visitor attraction using strong narrative interpretation and family-friendly presentation. Not a direct collection peer but comparable in audience model, ticket-driven revenue, and education focus for the RPM transformation.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

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Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

Funding overview

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