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Augsburg
Augsburg
Augsburg is a city in the south-west of Bavaria, Germany. It is a university town and home of the Regierungsbezirk Schwaben and the Bezirk Schwaben. Augsburg is an urban district and home to the institutions of the Landkreis Augsburg. It is, as of 2008, the third-largest city in Bavaria with a...

  • Augsburg Puppet Theater museum
    Augsburger Puppenkiste
    The Augsburger Puppenkiste is a marionette theater in Augsburg, Germany.It is located at the former Heilig-Geist-Spital in the historic center of Augsburg. Since 1948, the "Augsburger Puppenkiste" had been producing theatrical adaptations of fairy tales and serious pieces...

  • Augsburg Railway Park
    Augsburg Railway Park
    The Augsburg Railway Park is a railway museum in Augsburg on part of the former Augsburg locomotive shed owned by the Deutsche Bahn. At present the Railway Park is still under construction and is therefore only open to visitors for certain exhibitions. It will be officially re-opened on 13 April...

  • Fuggerei museum
    Fuggerei
    The Fuggerei is the world's oldest social housing complex still in use. It is a walled enclave within the city of Augsburg, Bavaria. It takes it name from the Fugger family and was founded in 1516 by Jacob Fugger the Younger as a place where the needy citizens of Augsburg could be housed...

  • German Ice Hockey Hall of Fame
    German Ice Hockey Hall of Fame
    The German Ice Hockey Hall of Fame, was founded in 1988 and is located in Augsburg, Germany. The Hall serves to honor those individuals who have contributed to the sport of hockey in the Germany and has displays and memorabilia depicting the significant contributions of players, coaches, referees...


Bonn
Bonn
Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located in the Cologne/Bonn Region, about 25 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....

  • Beethoven House
    Beethoven House
    DetailsThe Beethoven House in Bonn, Germany, is a memorial site, museum and cultural institution serving various purposes. Founded in 1889 by the Beethoven-Haus association it studies the life and work of composer Ludwig van Beethoven.The centrepiece of the Beethoven-Haus is Beethoven's birthplace...

  • Bonn Women's Museum
    Bonn Women's Museum
    The Bonn Women's Museum is a women's museum in Bonn, Germany. It was founded in 1981 by Marianne Pitzen and an interdisciplinary group of working women, and claims to be the first museum of its kind in the world...

  • Haus der Geschichte
    Haus der Geschichte
    Haus der Geschichte is a modern history museum in Bonn, Germany. Located on the Museumsmeile , the museum has exhibitions related to German history from 1945 until the present...

  • Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
    Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
    Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland is a museum in Bonn, Germany....

  • Kunstmuseum Bonn
    Kunstmuseum Bonn
    The Kunstmuseum Bonn or Bonn Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Bonn, Germany, founded in 1947. The Kunstmuseum exhibits both temporary exhibitions and its collection. Its collection is focused on Rhenish Expressionism and post-war German art...

  • Museum Koenig
    Museum Koenig
    The Alexander Koenig Research Museum is a natural history museum and zoological research institution in Bonn, Germany. The museum is named after Alexander Koenig, who donated his collection of specimens to the institution...

  • Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn
    Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn
    The Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, or LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn, is a museum in Bonn, Germany, run by the Rhineland Landscape Association. It is one of the oldest museums in the country. In 2003 it completed an extensive renovation...


Braunschweig
Braunschweig
Braunschweig , is a city of 247,400 people, located in the federal-state of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located north of the Harz mountains at the farthest navigable point of the Oker river, which connects to the North Sea via the rivers Aller and Weser....

  • Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum
    Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum
    The Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum is an art museum in the German city of Braunschweig, Lower Saxony.Founded in 1754, the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum is one of the oldest museums in Europe. It houses a collection of masters of Western art, including Cranach, Holbein, Van Dyck, Vermeer, Rubens, and...

  • Naturhistorisches Museum
    Naturhistorisches Museum (Braunschweig)
    The Naturhistorische Museum Braunschweig is a zoology museum in Braunschweig.The museum was founded in 1754.The scientific collections include 3,000 mammal specimens, 50,000 bird specimens, 10,300 bird eggs, 4,000 skulls and skeletons, 1,000 fish , amphibians and reptile specimens...


Bremen
Bremen
The City Municipality of Bremen is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany. A commercial and industrial city with a major port on the river Weser, Bremen is part of the Bremen-Oldenburg metropolitan area . Bremen is the second most populous city in North Germany and tenth in Germany.Bremen is...

  • Kunsthalle Bremen
    Kunsthalle Bremen
    The Kunsthalle Bremen is an art museum in the Hanseatic City Bremen, Germany.The Kunsthalle was built in 1849 and enlarged in 1902 by architect Eduard Gildemeister....

  • Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum
    Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum
    The Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum in Bremen, Germany, is the first museum in the world devoted to a female artist. Modersohn-Becker was one of the most important early Expressionists, and the museum features key works from each of her creative periods.Construction of the museum was commissioned...

  • Übersee Museum Bremen
    Übersee Museum Bremen
    The Übersee Museum Bremen is a Natural History and Ethnographic museum in Bremen, Germany. In an integrated exhibition, Nature, Culture and Trading, it presents aspects of overseas regions with permanent exhibitions relating to Asia, South Pacific/Oceania, Americas and Africa.-History:In 1875,...

  • Universum Science Center

Art museums

  • Käthe Kollwitz Museum
    Käthe Kollwitz Museum (Cologne)
    The Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Cologne owns one of the largest collections of works by the German artist Käthe Kollwitz .It opened on 22 April 1985, the 40th anniversary of Kollwitz's death...

  • Kolumba
    Kolumba
    The Kolumba is an art museum in Cologne, Germany. It is located on the site of the former St. Columba church, and run by the Archdiocese of Cologne...

    , art museum of the Archdiocese of Cologne
  • Museum of Applied Art
    Museum für Angewandte Kunst (Cologne)
    The Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln is a decorative arts museum in Cologne, Germany. The collections include jewellery, porcelain, furniture, weaponry and architectural exhibits...

  • Museum Ludwig
    Museum Ludwig
    Museum Ludwig, located in Cologne, Germany, houses a collection of modern art. It includes works from PopArt, Abstract and Surrealism, and has one of the largest Picasso collections in Europe. It also features many works by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein....

  • Skulpturen Park Köln
    Skulpturen Park Köln
    Skulpturen Park Köln is a major international overview of contemporary sculpture taking place from 19972009 in Cologne, Germany- History :-Subjects:...

  • Wallraf-Richartz Museum
    Wallraf-Richartz Museum
    The Wallraf-Richartz-Museum is one of the three major museums in Cologne, Germany. It houses an art gallery with a collection of fine art from the medieval period to the early twentieth century...


History and culture museums

  • EL-DE Haus
    EL-DE Haus
    EL-DE Haus, officially the Nazism Documentation Center, located in Cologne, is the former headquarters of the Gestapo and now a museum documenting the Third Reich....

  • Fragrance Museum
    Fragrance museum
    The Farina Fragrance Museum is situated across from Cologne City Hall, and near the famous Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in the Obenmarspforten in Innenstadt, Cologne...

  • Imhoff-Schokoladenmuseum
    Imhoff-Schokoladenmuseum
    The Imhoff-Schokoladenmuseum was opened by Hans Imhoff on 31 October 1993. It is situated in the Cologne quarter of Altstadt-Süd on the Rheinauhafen peninsula...

  • Romano-Germanic Museum
  • Schnütgen Museum
    Schnütgen Museum
    The Schnütgen Museum in Cologne , Germany is devoted to Christian religious art, mainly medieval, but some parts of the collection, such as its textiles and prints, extend from antiquity to the modern period...


Dresden
Dresden
Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....

  • Dresden City Museum
    Dresden City Museum
    Dresden City Museum is the central city museum for the German city of Dresden. Its displays tell the 800-year story of the city and is the largest and most important of the Dresden State Museums...

  • Dresden Transport Museum
    Dresden Transport Museum
    The Dresden Transport Museum displaysvehicles of all modes of transport, such as railway, shipping, road and air traffic, under one roof.The museum is housed in the Johanneum at the Neumarkt in Dresden, Germany...

  • German Hygiene Museum
    German Hygiene Museum
    The German Hygiene Museum is a museum in Dresden, Germany. It conceives itself today as a "forum for science, culture and society". It is a popular venue for events and exhibitions, and is among the most visited museums in Dresden, with around 300,000 visitors per year.-History:The museum was...

  • Militärhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr
    Militärhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr
    The Bundeswehr Military History Museum is the military museum of the German Armed Forces, the Bundeswehr, and one of the major military history museums in Germany. The museum is under the technical and administrative chain of command of the German Armed Forces Military History Research Office. It...

  • Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
    Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
    Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden is a cultural institution in Dresden, Germany, owned by the State of Saxony. It belongs to the most renowned and oldest museum institutions in the world, originating from the collections of the Saxon electors in the 16th century .Today, the Dresden State Art...

    , including:
    • Dresden Armory
      Dresden Armory
      The Dresden Armory , also known as the Dresden Historical Museum , is one of the world's largest collections of ceremonial weapons, armors and historical textiles. It is part of the Dresden State Art Collections.The Dresden Armory is currently on display in the gallery wing of the Zwinger Palace in...

    • Dresden Museum of Ethnology
    • Dresden Porcelain Collection
      Dresden Porcelain Collection
      The Dresden Porcelain Collection is part of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen of Dresden, Germany. It is located in the Zwinger Palace.-History and description:...

    • Galerie Neue Meister
      Galerie Neue Meister
      The Galerie Neue Meister is part of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen of Dresden, Germany...

    • Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
      Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
      The Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden features major works of art. It is located in the gallery wing of the Zwinger....

    • Grünes Gewölbe
      Grünes Gewölbe
      The Grünes Gewölbe in Dresden is a unique historic museum that contains the largest collection of treasures in Europe. Founded by Augustus the Strong in 1723, it features a rich variety of exhibits from the Baroque to Classicism...

       (Green Vault)
    • Kupferstich-Kabinett
      Kupferstich-Kabinett (Dresden)
      The Kupferstichkabinett is part of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen of Dresden, Germany. Since 2004 it has been located in Dresden Castle.-History:...

    • Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon
      Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon
      The Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon in Dresden, Germany, is a museum of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden . It is located in the Zwinger....

  • State Museum of Zoology, Dresden

Duisburg
Duisburg
- History :A legend recorded by Johannes Aventinus holds that Duisburg, was built by the eponymous Tuisto, mythical progenitor of Germans, ca. 2395 BC...

  • German Inland Waterways Museum
    German Inland Waterways Museum
    150px|right|thumb|[[The Industrial Heritage Trail|Ruhr Industrial Heritage Trail]]The German Inland Waterways Museum is located in Ruhrort, Duisburg at the nucleus of Duisburg-Ruhrorter ports which today make up the largest European inland harbour complex.The museum was founded in 1974 with...

  • Lehmbruck Museum
  • Museum Küppersmühle
    Museum Küppersmühle
    Museum Küppersmühle is a Centre for Modern and Contemporary Art based Duisburg's Inner Harbour. It houses the Ströher Collection. It is part of the Duisburg: Town and Harbour section of the Ruhr Industrial Heritage Trail.-Architecture:...


Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the...

  • Forum NRW
  • Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
    Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
    -Building:The present art centre was built in 1967 in Brutalist architecture by the architects Konrad Beckmann and Brockes. They used commercially available precast concrete for the construction work.-History:...

    • Kunst im Tunnel
      Kunst im Tunnel
      Kunst im Tunnel or KIT is a contemporary art museum in Düsseldorf. It is the new exhibition space of Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, located within the Rheinufertunnel - hence the name. It has an underground exhibition area of 850m²....

  • Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen
    Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen
    The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen is the art collection of the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, located in Düsseldorf. United by this institution are three different exhibition venues: the K20 at Grabbeplatz, the K21 in the Ständehaus and the Schmela Haus...

  • Museum Kunst Palast
    Museum kunst palast
    The Museum Kunstpalast is an art museum in Düsseldorf, Germany.- History :The Museum Kunst Palast was founded as Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, a typical communal arts collection in Germany. The first exhibits were given by the popular regent Jan Wellem, Duke of Palatinate, and his wife Anna Maria Luisa...


Frankfurt
Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010...

  • Frankfurter Kunstverein
    Frankfurter Kunstverein
    The Frankfurt Art Association is an art museum founded in 1829 by a group of influential citizen of the city of Frankfurt, Germany. The aim of the institution is to support the arts in the city, which was an important center of trade and business...

  • German Architecture Museum
    German Architecture Museum
    The German Architecture Museum is located on the Museumsufer in Frankfurt, Germany. Housed in an 18th-century building, the interior has been re-designed by Oswald Mathias Ungers in 1984 as a set of "elemental Platonic buildings within elemental Platonic buildings".The museum organises several...

  • Goethe House
    Goethe House
    The Goethe House in the old town of Frankfurt am Main was the family residence of the Goethe family, most notably Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, until 1795. Johann Wolfgang was himself born here in 1749 to his parents, Johann Caspar Goethe, a lawyer, and Katherine Elisabeth Textor, daughter of the...

  • Historic Railway, Frankfurt
    Historic Railway, Frankfurt
    The Historic Railway, Frankfurt or HEF is a German museum railway in Frankfurt am Main. The society was founded in 1978 and its aim is the preservation of historic, valuable railway materiel in working order, especially steam locomotives, as technical and cultural monuments.Since 1979 there has...

  • Historical museum, Frankfurt
    Historical museum, Frankfurt
    The Historical Museum in Frankfurt am Main was founded in 1878, and includes cultural and historical objects relating to the city's history...

  • Jewish Museum Frankfurt
    Jewish Museum Frankfurt
    The Jewish Museum of the City of Frankfurt am Main covers the history and culture of the Jewish communities in Frankfurt from the 12th to the 20th centuries. There is another branch of the museum, the Museum Judengasse, in a different part of town....

  • Liebieghaus
    Liebieghaus
    The Liebieghaus is a late 19th-century villa in Frankfurt, Germany. It contains a sculpture museum, the Städtische Galerie Liebieghaus, which is part of the Museumsufer on the Sachsenhausen bank of the River Main.-History:...

  • Museum für angewandte Kunst
    Museum für angewandte Kunst
    The Museum of Applied Arts or just MAK, a short version of its German name Museum für angewandte Kunst is located in Frankfurt, Germany and exhibits more than 30,000 objects representing European and Asian decorative arts. The new building of the museum was designed by the American architect...

  • Museum Giersch
    Museum Giersch
    The Museum Giersch is an art gallery in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on the Museumsufer.The museum opened in 2000. It hosts a changing series of exhibitions displaying the art and cultural history of the Rhine-Main area, with the aim of promoting the regions's cultural identity.The Museum Giersch...

  • Museum für Kommunikation
    Museum für Kommunikation
    Museum für Kommunikation is the name of several museums in German-speaking countries, including:In Germany:* Museum für Kommunikation Berlin* Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt* Museum für Kommunikation Hamburg...

  • Museum für Moderne Kunst
    Museum für Moderne Kunst
    The Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt am Main was founded in 1981. The museum was designed by the Viennese architect Hans Hollein. Because of its triangular shape, it is called "piece of cake"....

  • Museum der Weltkulturen
    Museum der Weltkulturen
    The Museum of World Cultures is an ethnological museum in Frankfurt, Germany. Until 2001 it was called the Museum of Ethnology .-History:...

  • Senckenberg Museum
    Senckenberg Museum
    The Naturmuseum Senckenberg in Frankfurt is the second largest museum of natural history in Germany. It is particularly popular with children, who enjoy the extensive collection of dinosaur skeletons: Senckenberg boasts the largest exhibition of large dinosaurs in Europe. One particular treasure is...

  • Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
    Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
    The Schirn Kunsthalle is Frankfurt's active exhibition space located in the heart of the old city next to the Dom , exhibiting both modern and contemporary art. Exhibitions in recent years included retrospectives of Wassily Kandinsky, Marc Chagall, Frida Kahlo, Alberto Giacometti, Bill Viola, and...

  • Städel
    Städel
    The Städel, officially the Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, is an art museum in Frankfurt am Main, with one of the most important collections in Germany....

  • see also: Museumsufer
    Museumsufer
    The embankment to the south of the Main River in Frankfurt, Germany, is called Museumsufer or Museum Embankment because of the large concentration of museums there...


Hanover
Hanover
Hanover or Hannover, on the river Leine, is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony , Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of Great Britain, under their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg...

  • Hannoversches Strassenbahn Museum
  • Kestner Gesellschaft
    Kestner Gesellschaft
    Kestner Gesellschaft is a museum for the exhibition of international contemporary art in Hanover, Germany.The Kestner Society , is has existed since 1916 Kunstverein in Hanover. The association is also distinguished from the cultural and historical domiciled in Hannover Kestner Museum...

  • Kestner-Museum
    Kestner-Museum
    Kestner-Museum is a museum in Hanover, Germany, founded in 1889. It was renamed "Museum August Kestner" in December 2007 to avoid confusion with the "Kestnergesellschaft", a local art gallery.-External links:*...

  • Lower Saxony State Museum
    Lower Saxony State Museum
    The Lower Saxony State Museum is a museum in Hanover, Germany. It is located opposite the New City Hall. The museum comprises the State Gallery , featuring paintings and sculptures from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, plus departments of archaeology, natural history and ethnology...

  • Sprengel Museum
    Sprengel Museum
    The Sprengel Museum in Hanover houses one of the most significant collections of modern art in Germany. It is located in a building designed by Peter and Ursula Trint and Dieter Quast , adjacent to the Maschsee...

  • Wilhelm Busch Museum

Leipzig
Leipzig
Leipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...

  • Grassi Museum
    Grassi Museum
    The Grassi Museum is a building complex in Leipzig, Germany, home to three museums: the Ethnography Museum, Musical Instruments Museum, and Applied Arts Museum....

    , including:
    • Leipzig Museum of Applied Arts
      Leipzig Museum of Applied Arts
      The Museum of Applied Arts is a museum in Leipzig, Germany. It is the second oldest museum of decorative arts in the country, founded just six years after the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin...

    • Leipzig Museum of Ethnography
      Leipzig Museum of Ethnography
      The Leipzig Museum of Ethnography is a large ethnographic museum in Leipzig, Germany. Today it is part of the Grassi Museum, an institution which also includes the Museum of Applied Arts and the Museum of Musical Instruments, based in a large building on the Johannisplatz.-History:The museum...

    • Museum of Musical Instruments of the University of Leipzig
      Museum of Musical Instruments of the University of Leipzig
      The Museum of Musical Instruments of the University of Leipzig is a museum in Leipzig, Germany. It is located on Johannisplatz, near the city centre...

  • Museum of Antiquities of the University of Leipzig
    Museum of Antiquities of the University of Leipzig
    The Museum of Antiquities of the University of Leipzig is a collection of antiques in Leipzig, Germany.-History:The foundations of the collection were laid in the first half of the 18th century, with the first acquisitions of antiques by the University. As early as 1735, Johann Friedrich Christ,...

  • Museum der bildenden Künste
    Museum der bildenden Künste
    The Museum der bildenden Künste is a museum in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. On 7,000 square meters of display area, 3,500 paintings, 1,000 sculptures and 60,000 graphical works are shown...

  • Naturkundemuseum Leipzig
    Naturkundemuseum Leipzig
    Naturkundemuseum Leipzig is a natural history museum in Leipzig, Germany. The museum contains the insect collection of Alexander Julius Reichert.-External links:*...


Art museums

  • Alte Pinakothek
    Alte Pinakothek
    The Alte Pinakothek is an art museum situated in the Kunstareal in Munich, Germany. It is one of the oldest galleries in the world and houses one of the most famous collections of Old Master paintings...

  • Bavarian National Museum
    Bavarian National Museum
    The Bavarian National Museum in Munich is one of the most important cultural history museums in Europe.-Building and History:...

  • Bavarian State Archaeological Collection
    Bavarian State Archaeological Collection
    The Bavarian State Archaeological Collection in Munich is the central museum of prehistory of the State of Bavaria and one of the most important archaeological collections and cultural history museums in Germany.-History:...

  • Glyptothek
    Glyptothek
    The Glyptothek is a museum in Munich, Germany, which was commissioned by the Bavarian King Ludwig I to house his collection of Greek and Roman sculptures . It was designed by Leo von Klenze in the Neoclassical style, and built from 1816 to 1830...

  • Goetz Collection
    Goetz Collection
    The Goetz Collection is a private collection of contemporary art in Munich, Germany. The collection is owned and continually being built by the former gallery dealer Ingvild Goetz, who presents the collection to the public in a series of themed exhibitions in a purpose built museum designed by the...

  • Haus der Kunst
    Haus der Kunst
    The Haus der Kunst is an art museum in Munich, Germany. It is located at Prinzregentenstrasse 1 at the southern edge of the Englischer Garten, Munich's largest park.-History:...

  • Lenbachhaus
    Lenbachhaus
    The Lenbachhaus in Munich houses an art museum and is part of Munich's "Kunstareal" .- The building :The Lenbachhaus was built as a Florentine-style villa for the painter Franz von Lenbach between 1887 and 1891 by Gabriel von Seidl...

  • Munich Residenz
  • Munich Stadtmuseum
    Munich Stadtmuseum
    The Munich Stadtmuseum is the city museum of Munich. It was founded in 1888 by Ernst von Destouches and is located in the former municipal arsenal and stables, both buildings of the late Gothic period.-Permanent exhibitions:...

  • Museum Brandhorst
    Museum Brandhorst
    The Brandhorst Museum was opened in Munich on May 21, 2009. It displays about 200 exhibits from collection of modern art of the heirs of the Henkel trust Udo and Anette Brandhorst...

  • Neue Pinakothek
    Neue Pinakothek
    The Neue Pinakothek is an art museum in Munich, Germany. Its focus is European Art of the 18th and 19th century and is one of the most important museums of art of the nineteenth century in the world...

  • Pinakothek der Moderne
    Pinakothek der Moderne
    The Pinakothek der Moderne is a modern art museum, situated in the city centre of Munich, Germany. Together with its two predecessors Alte Pinakothek and Neue Pinakothek The Pinakothek der Moderne (= "(Art) Gallery of the Modern"; from Greek: "pinax" = "board", "tablet") is a modern art museum,...

  • Schackgalerie
    Schackgalerie
    The Schackgalerie is a museum in Munich. It is one of the noted galleries in this city. The museum is under supervision of the Bavarian State Picture Collection.-Collection:...

  • Staatliche Antikensammlungen
    Staatliche Antikensammlungen
    The Staatliche Antikensammlungen in the Kunstareal of Munich is a museum for the Bavarian state's antique collections for Greek, Etruscan and Roman art. The Bavarian state collection of Ancient Egyptian art is traditionally placed in its own museum...

  • Staatliche Sammlung für Ägyptische Kunst
    Staatliche Sammlung für Ägyptische Kunst
    The Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst in Munich is the Bavarian State Collection for Ancient Egypt art. It displays exhibits from all periods of Ancient Egypt's history. The associated small Middle East section displays objects from the areas of Assyrian and Babylonian culture...

  • State Museum of Ethnology
    State Museum of Ethnology
    The Bavarian State Museum of Ethnology in Munich, Germany is a museum for Non-European artworks and objects of cultural value.-The building:...


Cultural history museums

  • Deutsches Brauereimuseum
    Deutsches Brauereimuseum
    The Deutsche Brauereimuseum at the St.-Jakobs-Platz in Munich was founded in 1952 on the initiative of the Bavarian Hofbräuhaus....

  • Deutsches Jagd- und Fischereimuseum
    Deutsches Jagd- und Fischereimuseum
    The Deutsches Jagd- und Fischereimuseum is a museum exhibiting objects connected with the history of hunting and fishing in Germany or other territories which nowadays belong to it.-Location:...

  • Jewish Museum Munich
    Jewish Museum Munich
    The Jewish Museum Munich provides an overview of Munich’s Jewish history and is part of the city's new Jewish Center located at Sankt-Jakobs-Platz in Munich, Germany...

  • Valentin-Musäum in the Isartor
    Isartor
    The Isartor at the Isartorplatz in Munich is one of four main gates of the medieval city wall. It served as a fortification for the defence and is the most easterly of Munich's three remaining gothic town gates...


Natural history museums

  • Museum of Man and Nature
    Museum of Man and Nature
    The Museum Mensch und Natur is a German natural history museum. It is occupies part the Nymphenburg Palace in Munich, Bavaria.- Bear exhibit :...

  • Paläontologisches Museum München
    Paläontologisches Museum München
    The Paläontologische Museum München is a German national natural history museum situated in Munich, Bavaria. It is associated with the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität...

  • Zoologische Staatssammlung München
    Zoologische Staatssammlung München
    Zoologische Staatssammlung München or ZSM or The Bavarian State Collection of Zoology is a major German research institution for zoological systematics. With over 20 million zoological specimens it is one of the largest natural history collections in the world. The sections are Entomology,...

    • Museum Witt
      Museum Witt
      The Museum Witt Munich is a department of the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology. It is located in Munich, Germany, and has the world's leading collection of moths.- Establishment :The museum was established in 1980 by Thomas Witt....


Münster
Münster
Münster is an independent city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also capital of the local government region Münsterland...

  • Westfälisches Museum für Naturkunde
  • Westphalian State Museum of Art and Cultural History
    Westphalian State Museum of Art and Cultural History
    The Westphalian State Museum of Art and Cultural History is an arts and cultural museum in Münster, Germany-External links:*...


Nuremberg
Nuremberg
Nuremberg[p] is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, it is located about north of Munich and is Franconia's largest city. The population is 505,664...

  • Documentation Center Nazi Party Rally Grounds
    Documentation Center Nazi Party Rally Grounds
    The Documentation Center Nazi Party Rallying Grounds is a museum in Nuremberg. It is in the north wing of the unfinished remains of the Congress Hall of the former Nazi party rallies. Its permanent exhibition "Fascination and Terror" is concerned with the causes, connections, and consequences of...

  • Germanisches Nationalmuseum
    Germanisches Nationalmuseum
    The Germanisches Nationalmuseum is a museum in Nuremberg, Germany. Founded in 1852, houses a large collection of items relating to German culture and art extending from prehistoric times through to the present day...

  • Kunsthalle Nürnberg
    Kunsthalle Nürnberg
    The Kunsthalle Nürnberg is an art centre founded in 1967, near the city centre. It hosts exhibitions by contemporary international artists in Nuremberg...

  • Neues Museum Nürnberg
    Neues Museum Nürnberg
    Neues Museum Nürnberg is a museum for modern and contemporary art and design in Nuremberg, Germany. It was opened in April 2000....

  • Nuremberg Toy Museum
    Nuremberg Toy Museum
    The Toy Museum is a museum in Nuremberg, Bavaria. Located in a city famous for its toy-makers, it was founded in 1971, and is based on the toy collection of Lydia and Paul Bayer....

  • Nuremberg Transport Museum
    Nuremberg Transport Museum
    The Nuremberg Transport Museum is based in Nuremberg, Germany, and consists of the Deutsche Bahn's own DB Museum and the Museum of Communications . It also has two satellite museums at Koblenz-Lützel and Halle...


Saxony
Saxony
The Free State of Saxony is a landlocked state of Germany, contingent with Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, the Czech Republic and Poland. It is the tenth-largest German state in area, with of Germany's sixteen states....

 

See also: List of museums in Saxony
  • Frohnauer Hammer
    Frohnauer Hammer
    The Frohnauer Hammer is an historic hammer mill in Frohnau, a village in the municipality of Annaberg-Buchholz in the Ore Mountains of southeast Germany. The mill is an important witness to the proto-industrial development in the Ore Mountains...

  • Ore Mountain Toy Museum, Seiffen
    Ore Mountain Toy Museum, Seiffen
    The Ore Mountain Toy Museum in Seiffen is an internationally known museum of Ore Mountain toys and Ore Mountain folk art. It was opened in 1953 in Seiffen...


Stuttgart
Stuttgart
Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....

  • Hegel House
    Hegel House
    The Hegel House is a museum in Stuttgart, Germany, located in the house where the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born.Born in 1770, Hegel lived in Stuttgart for the first 18 years of his life; he died in Berlin in 1831. The Hegel House is on Eberhardstraße, and dates from the 16th...

  • Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
    Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
    The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart is a contemporary and modern art museum in Stuttgart, Germany, built and opened in 2005.-Description:The cubic museum building with 5000 m² of display space was designed by Berlin architects Hascher and Jehle...

  • Landesmuseum Württemberg
    Landesmuseum Württemberg
    The Landesmuseum Württemberg is the main historical museum of the Württemberg part of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It emerged from the 16th century “Kunstkammer” of the dukes, later kings, of Württemberg who resided in Stuttgart...

  • Linden Museum
    Linden Museum
    The Linden Museum is an ethnological museum located in Stuttgart, Germany....

  • Mercedes-Benz Museum
    Mercedes-Benz Museum
    The Mercedes-Benz Museum is an automotive museum housed in Stuttgart, Germany. Stuttgart is home to the Mercedes-Benz brand and the international headquarters of Daimler AG. The current building, which stands directly outside the main gate of the Daimler factory in Stuttgart-Untertürkheim, was...

  • Museum am Löwentor
    Museum am Löwentor
    The State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart is one of the two state of Baden-Württemberg's natural history museums...

  • Museum am Rosenstein
  • Neue Staatsgalerie
    Neue Staatsgalerie
    The Neue Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart, Germany was designed by the British firm James Stirling, Michael Wilford and Associates, although largely accredited solely to partner James Stirling. It was constructed in the 1970s and opened to the public in 1984....

  • Porsche Museum
    Porsche Museum, Stuttgart
    The Porsche Museum is an automotive museum in the Zuffenhausen district of Stuttgart, Germany on the site of carmaker Porsche.- The new museum :The new Porsche museum stands on a conspicuous junction just outside Porsche Headquarters in Zuffenhausen...

  • Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
    Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
    The Staatsgalerie Stuttgart is an art gallery and art museum in Stuttgart, Germany, opened in 1843. In 1984 the opening of the Neue Staatsgalerie designed by James Stirling transformed the once provincial gallery into one of Europe's leading museums.-Alte Staatsgalerie:Originally, the classicist...

  • State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart
    State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart
    The State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart is one of the two state of Baden-Württemberg's natural history museums...


Wuppertal
Wuppertal
Wuppertal is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in and around the Wupper river valley, and is situated east of the city of Düsseldorf and south of the Ruhr area. With a population of approximately 350,000, it is the largest city in the Bergisches Land...

  • Bergische Museumsbahnen
  • Knipex Museum
  • Von der Heydt Museum
    Von der Heydt Museum
    Von der Heydt Museum is a museum in Wuppertal, Germany.The Von der Heydt Museum includes works by 19th and 20th century artists. The first of Pablo Picasso’s works that ever appeared in public was displayed here.-External links:*...


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