in between.

You, life and finiteness

Which is better: urn or coffin? How did death come into the world? Does a skull belong in a museum display case? What do you need in your grief? How do you look at life? We may be a museum, but we don't know everything. That's why we need you.

The Museum of Sepulchral Culture has been dedicated to the topics of dying, death, burial, mourning and remembrance for over 30 years. From 2026, it will be temporarily closed, rebuilt and renovated. The goal: a new permanent exhibition. In the meantime, until the reopening, we are now focusing on current developments, content and questions. We want to find new exhibits and present existing exhibits in such a way that they can tell your story.

With in between. You, life and finiteness, we are preparing our new permanent exhibition. We invite you to delve deeper and help shape it. In in-between you will find exhibits from the fields of fine and applied arts as well as cultural-historical objects. Supplemented by text elements and media impulses, you can immerse yourself in the themes of sepulchral culture and at the same time have the opportunity to comment on them. And you won't be alone: the program includes lectures, discussions, readings and artistic interventions - for children and adults alike.

Come along to our field of experimentation. It's about you, your life and finiteness.

The exhibition is sponsored by SV SparkassenVersicherung, Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Hessen-Thüringen and Arbeitskreis selbstständiger Kultur-Institute e.V..