Museums in Bavaria

All museums

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Feuerwehrmuseum Eggenfelden (Fire Brigade Museum Eggenfelden)

  

  The collection of local history and fire brigade history includes not only items of equipment but also numerous written and pictorial documents from the beginnings of fire fighting up to the present...

  Location: Eggenfelden

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Post- und Heimatmuseum Flachslanden (Postal and Local History Museum)

  

  The Flachslanden Post and Local History Museum displays objects from the postal history of the market town of Flachslanden, as well as a collection of furniture and tools.

  Location: Flachslanden

• Museum / Exhibition Centre - currently closed: Das Berta-Hummel-Museum im Hummelhaus (The Berta Hummel Museum in the Hummel House)

  

  No one can escape the magic of these children: Shortly after the world premiere in 1935, it is said that every second German household owned a Hummel figurine, and the American "M. I. Hummel Club"...

  Location: Massing

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst – Diether Kunerth (Museum of Contemporary Art - Diether Kunerth)

  

  The Museum of Contemporary Art provides an exciting counterpoint to the world-famous basilica in the centre of Ottobeuren. The exhibition rooms are deliberately kept simple so that the art can fully...

  Location: Ottobeuren

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Deutsches Zinnfigurenmuseum auf der Plassenburg (German Pewter Figurine Museum at Plassenburg Castle)

  

  Two superlatives await visitors to the Deutsches Museum (German Museum): with over 300,000 individual figures, it is the largest museum of its kind in the world - and more than 19,000 of them are in...

  Location: Kulmbach

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

  

  The Museum of the city of Grafing (Museum der Stadt Grafing) has dedicated a separate section to probably Grafing's most famous son, the landscape and animal painter Max Josef Wagenbauer (1775-1829):...

  Location: Grafing

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Akademie der Bildenden Künste (Academy of Fine Arts)

  

  The Akademie der Bildenden Künste (Academy of Fine Arts) in Nuremberg, founded in 1662 as the first art academy in the German-speaking world, sees itself as a creative laboratory with an open research...

  Location: Nürnberg

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Industriedenkmal Radom Raisting; Antenne I der Erdefunkstelle Raisting (Industrial monument Radom Raisting; Antenna I of the earth station Raisting)

  

  The large white dome and the neighbouring parabolic antennas still look like a piece of science fiction in the middle of the Alpine foothills, but they are already history: Antenna I of the Raisting...

  Location: Raisting

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Synagoge Memmelsdorf (Synagogue Memmelsdorf)

  

  The synagogue in Memmelsdorf can be experienced as a "place of learning" thanks to the successful coordination of the restoration and museum education concepts. The main room in its preserved version,...

  Location: Untermerzbach