The Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum is an archaeological museum in Hildesheim, Germany. It holds mainly ancient Egyptian and ancient Peruvian art and has the second-largest collection of Chinese porcelain in Europe. Its holdings also include natural history, ethnology, applied arts, drawings and prints, local history and archaeology.
The museum combines two institutions. The Roemer Museum was founded in 1844 and is named after the co-founder Hermann Roemer. The Pelizaeus Museum was established in 1911 to house the private Egyptian antiquities collection of Wilhelm Pelizaeus.
The original building dated from the 1950s. In 2000 it was replaced by a new building that greatly increased exhibition space. Besides permanent exhibitions, the museum hosts temporary shows on archaeological and contemporary subjects.
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