The museum is “attributed” to the Glauberg archaeological site: quite recently, in the 1990s, a fortified Celtic settlement, a sanctuary and several burial mounds of the nobility were discovered. Among the numerous finds, mainly dating back to the middle of the 1st millennium BC. e., the stone statue of the leader, called the "Celtic Prince of Glauberg", was especially famous: it even adorned German postage stamps.
The architects took into account the property common to most archaeological monuments: the main thing there is the historical landscape, bearing traces of human activity, and not at all a museum - a repository of objects extracted from the "habitat".
Therefore, the building, protruding as a console from a gentle slope, serves primarily as a "pointing finger", directing the visitor towards the "main character" Glauberg - the central mound. Its crisp contours and the reddish color of its rusted-metal facades contrast with the green hills of the surrounding landscape. In addition, the architects put another meaning in their project: the museum looks more like a “mysterious object” rather than a museum, prompting the observer to explore it and then turn to the study of the landscape.
The entrance is located under the console, on the first level there are cafes and utility rooms: there both a tour of the museum and a visit to the whole of Glauberg begin and end. On the second floor there is an exposition, where visitors slowly climb the gentle staircase. A panoramic window overlooking the mound completes the chain of exhibits: this is how its main role is again emphasized, and it also becomes part of the exhibition. The final chord is the observation deck on the roof of the building, where the visitor returns from the artificial to the natural-historical environment in the most spectacular way.
