Museum am Dom Trier

Beside Trier Cathedral, the oldest bishop's church in Germany, this museum presents the cultural and religious history of the diocese. Its centrepiece is the Constantinian ceiling paintings: some 30,000 fragments of an ancient plaster ceiling, recovered from beneath the cathedral in 1945-46 and pieced together over ten years. They show flying cupids, Eros and Psyche and seven life-size portrait busts, one thought to be Maxima Fausta.