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Mainzer Fastnachtsmuseum
Mainzer Fastnachtsmuseum
55116 Mainz
Tuesday - Sunday
11 am - 5 pm
Closed on Mondays and public holidays
The museum is run on a voluntary basis. For this reason, guided tours can only be offered to a limited number of people (10 or more) by prior arrangement.
Please register for guided tours 14 days before the planned visit via email:
fuehrungen@mainzer-fastnachtsmuseum.de
or by telephone 06131/6696950 (Tuesday and Thursday from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm).
Reduced for students, pensioners, etc. € 2,00
Children up to 14 years € 1,50
School classes and kindergartens by appointment € 0.00
Guided tours € 15.00 plus entrance fee
At the Mainz Carnival Museum, the fifth season is far from over on Ash Wednesday. Here you can experience the foolish goings-on ‘im Saal un uff de Gass’ all year round.
You will find everything that is typical of the Mainz carnival: Fools' caps, costumes, medals, the uniforms of the Mainz guards, the “Schwellköpp”, the parade badges and the “Bütt” with the owl, which stands for the political-literary lecture and the “Määnzer Kokolores”.
‘Mainz remains Mainz, as it sings and laughs’; only here are the horn-rimmed glasses of Rolf Braun, the costumes of the cleaning lady duo Mrs Babbisch and Mrs Struwwelich, the leather apron of Ernst Neger, costumes of Margit Sponheimer and the Mainz court singers.
And, of course, excerpts from over 60 years of TV carnival and all the Mainz hits to sway along to.
The Mainz Carnival Archive, founded in 1972, collects and catalogues documents and other archive material from the Mainz Carnival clubs.