The State Archaeological Collection in Munich is opening its doors to visitors again for the first time after eight years of general renovation. A highlight of the exhibition is the bog body that became famous as "Frau von Peiting." The room in which it is exhibited is dedicated to death, says archaeologist Brigitte Haas-Gebhard.
The museum is now one of the 25 most important objects in Bavaria, according to the city's culture minister Markus Blume. It is the only one of its kind in all of Bavaria and was discovered in 1957 while mining peat in Weiter Filz between Peiting and Hohenpeißenberg. It has been stored in storage waiting for the reopening of the state collection, in whose exhibition it is now the 25th most important object in the city, says Haas-Gebhard, who is also the director of the Bavarian Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, which is also open to the public.