The Knauf Museum Iphofen is a private museum in the Franconian city of Iphofen and a facility of Knauf Gips KG. The collection of reliefs from the great cultural epochs of antiquity is unique in Europe. The collection, put together by the plaster manufacturers Alfons N. Knauf and Karl Knauf, was opened in 1983 as a permanent exhibition in a stately baroque building on the city's market, where it has been housed ever since.
In 250 exhibits it presents the highlights of ancient art from Mesopotamia via Egypt, Greece, Rome and ancient America to India. The true-to-original plaster replicas of the masterpieces were cast in the world's major museums and in situ. The Knauf Museum offers a fascinating overview of world art in all its diversity on around 900 square meters.