Family Museums in the Allgäu

The "Family Museums in the Allgäu" network comprises 16 museums in the Allgäu region - from cultural history museums to art and open-air museums to special collections. With interactive hands-on stations and children's trails, the museums invite visitors of all ages to take exciting tours. Everyone can try on hats, solve puzzles and discover media stations. Each museum offers an extensive programme with guided tours, workshops and creative activities for young and old.

Children with Roman helmets in their arms and cell phones in their hands on a high plateau with a board explaining the sights on the horizon — © www.matthiastunger.de

Two girls in colorful hats look at a smartphone together. In the background is a large-format poster of Times Square in New York. — Deutsches Hutmuseum Lindenberg © bayern.by – Florian Trykowski

Hands-on exhibitions for children and participatory projects make a visit to the museum a special experience. Visit the “Family Museums in the Allgäu” and experience cultural history up close!

Museums for Children in the Allgäu

Deutsches Hutmuseum (German Hat Museum) (external link, opens in a new window)

The 17 “Family Museums in the Allgäu” design their exhibitions to be particularly family-friendly. The network includes city, art, open-air and specialist museums such as the Deutsche Hutmuseum (German Hat Museum) in Lindenberg

Exhibitions in the Network “Family Museums in the Allgäu”

Exhibition: Hand drawn

25.07.2024 - 06.01.2025

Kempten-Museum im Zumsteinhaus (Kempten Museum in the Zumstein House)

Location: Kempten
Exhibition: Jan-Hendrik Pelz: Retrospective IV

26.10.2024 - 26.01.2025

MEWO Kunsthalle (MEWO Art Gallery)

Location: Memmingen
Exhibition: Lola Cuallado: Spotted Alphabet

26.10.2024 - 02.02.2025

MEWO Kunsthalle (MEWO Art Gallery)

Location: Memmingen

The Family Museums in the Allgäu

Museum / Exhibition Centre - currently closed: Stadtmuseum Lindau (Lindau City Museum)

One of the most beautiful baroque town houses on Lake Constance, the "Haus zum Cavazzen", built in 1729, houses the Stadtmuseum Lindau (Lindau City Museum). The eventful history of the former free...

Location: Lindau
Museum / Exhibition Centre: AlpenStadtMuseum (Alpine Town Museum)

The old farmhouse in Sonthofen in the Allgäu, with its historic centre dating back to 1555, has been extended by a purist, modern annex. In the permanent exhibition you can see how parents, children...

Location: Sonthofen
Museum / Exhibition Centre: Isergebirgs-Museum Neugablonz (Isergebirgs Museum Neugablonz)

Three branches of industry shaped economic life in the Jizera Mountains in northern Bohemia: Glass and jewellery manufacturing flourished in Gablonz, and the textile industry in Reichenberg and...

Location: Kaufbeuren
Museum / Exhibition Centre: Archäologischer Park Cambodunum (Cambodunum Archaeological Park)

2,000 years of urban history: The Archäologischer Park Cambodunum (Cambodunum Archaeological Park) presents the Roman city of Kempten, visible in monuments and finds from over 130 years of...

Location: Kempten
Museum / Exhibition Centre: Deutsches Hutmuseum (German Hat Museum)

300 years of hat history(s) to touch and put on: The Deutsches Hat Museum (German Hat Museum) presents familiar, interesting and curious facts about headwear. In the former Ottmar Reich hat factory,...

Location: Lindenberg
Museum / Exhibition Centre: Staatsgalerie im Hohen Schloss Füssen (State Gallery in the High Castle Füssen)

The collection in the High Castle includes late Gothic panel paintings and sculptures from the Swabian-Bavarian and Allgäu regions, which are in keeping with the location of the castle and its large...

Location: Füssen
Museum / Exhibition Centre: Allgäuer Bergbauernmuseum (Allgäu Mountain Farming Museum)

A museum to participate in and "grasp": Located at an altitude of over 1000 m, the open-air museum offers insights into the life and work of the Allgäu mountain farmers. In the 300-year-old Sattler...

Location: Immenstadt
Museum / Exhibition Centre: Kempten-Museum im Zumsteinhaus (Kempten Museum in the Zumstein House)

Experiential spaces of yesterday, today and tomorrow: telling 2,000 years of the city's history - that is the core concern of the Kempten-Museum im Zumsteinhaus (Kempten Museum in the Zumstein House),...

Location: Kempten
Museum / Exhibition Centre: Stadtmuseum im Hermansbau (City Museum in the Hermansbau)

The history and culture of the Protestant imperial city of Memmingen are vividly reflected in the Stadtmuseum im Hermansbau (City Museum in the Hermansbau). An important part of the museum is the...

Location: Memmingen
Museum / Exhibition Centre: Südsee-Sammlung und Historisches Museum Obergünzburg (South Sea Collection and Historical Museum Obergünzburg)

For 10 years, Karl Nauer (1874-1962) from Obergünzburg served as captain of North German Lloyd in German New Guinea. When he returned to the Allgäu from the South Pacific in 1913, Nauer donated an...

Location: Obergünzburg
Museum / Exhibition Centre: MEWO Kunsthalle (MEWO Art Gallery)

The MEWO Kunsthalle (MEWO Art Gallery) presents an ambitious exhibition programme on 20th and 21st century art. It offers direct access to current artistic production and integrates it into an...

Location: Memmingen
Museum / Exhibition Centre: Antoniter- und Strigel-Museum im Antonierhaus (Antonite and Strigel Museum in the Antonian House)

The "Antonius fire" (poisoning by ergot fungus in rye) was a feared and widespread disease of the Middle Ages. It was cured by the Order of the Antonites, which was also based in Memmingen from 1214...

Location: Memmingen
Museum / Exhibition Centre: Stadtmuseum Kaufbeuren (Kaufbeuren City Museum)

The Stadtmuseum Kaufbeuren (Kaufbeuren City Museum), one of the oldest museums in Bavarian Swabia, displays its rich collection on three floors of a historic old town building. The permanent...

Location: Kaufbeuren
Museum / Exhibition Centre: Museum der Stadt Füssen (Museum of the city of Füssen)

The gentleman gallantly lifts his hat to ask the maiden to dance. But she is anything but pleased - after all, the cavalier is a skeleton ... Under the motto "Sagt Ja Sagt Nein Getanzt Muess sein!"...

Location: Füssen

Impressions from the Network “Family Museums in the Allgäu”

Outdoor area of the Archaeological Park — © erlebe.bayern. Foto: Florian Trykowski

Woman in Roman dress shows freshly baked bread — © erlebe.bayern. Foto: Florian Trykowski

Staging hats that take over the room like a tornado — Inszenierung "Huttornado" © Deutsches Hutmuseum. Foto: Daniel Stauch

Museums for Children in the Allgäu

Deutsches Hutmuseum (German Hat Museum) (external link, opens in a new window)

Exhibitions in the Network “Family Museums in the Allgäu”

Exhibition: Hand drawn

Exhibition: Jan-Hendrik Pelz: Retrospective IV

Exhibition: Lola Cuallado: Spotted Alphabet

The Family Museums in the Allgäu

Museum / Exhibition Centre - currently closed: Stadtmuseum Lindau (Lindau City Museum)

Museum / Exhibition Centre: AlpenStadtMuseum (Alpine Town Museum)

Museum / Exhibition Centre: Isergebirgs-Museum Neugablonz (Isergebirgs Museum Neugablonz)

Museum / Exhibition Centre: Archäologischer Park Cambodunum (Cambodunum Archaeological Park)

Museum / Exhibition Centre: Deutsches Hutmuseum (German Hat Museum)

Museum / Exhibition Centre: Staatsgalerie im Hohen Schloss Füssen (State Gallery in the High Castle Füssen)

Museum / Exhibition Centre: Allgäuer Bergbauernmuseum (Allgäu Mountain Farming Museum)

Museum / Exhibition Centre: Kempten-Museum im Zumsteinhaus (Kempten Museum in the Zumstein House)

Museum / Exhibition Centre: Stadtmuseum im Hermansbau (City Museum in the Hermansbau)

Museum / Exhibition Centre: Südsee-Sammlung und Historisches Museum Obergünzburg (South Sea Collection and Historical Museum Obergünzburg)

Museum / Exhibition Centre: MEWO Kunsthalle (MEWO Art Gallery)

Museum / Exhibition Centre: Antoniter- und Strigel-Museum im Antonierhaus (Antonite and Strigel Museum in the Antonian House)

Museum / Exhibition Centre: Stadtmuseum Kaufbeuren (Kaufbeuren City Museum)

Museum / Exhibition Centre: Museum der Stadt Füssen (Museum of the city of Füssen)

Impressions from the Network “Family Museums in the Allgäu”