Museums in Bavaria

All museums

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Germanisches Nationalmuseum (Germanic National Museum)

  

  You can hardly do it in one day: With 1.3 million collected objects, the Deutsches Nationalmuseum (German Museum) is the largest cultural history museum in the German-speaking world. The spectrum of...

  Location: Nürnberg

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Burgmuseum Grünwald (Castle Museum Grünwald)

  

  "Ja, so warn's die oiden Rittersleit" (Yes, that's how the old knights were) comes from a song by Karl Valentin, which set a lyrical monument to the almost thousand-year-old castle, which was used as...

  Location: Grünwald

• 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: Museum beim Strumpfar (Museum at the Strumpfar)

  

  The name of the house says it all: the inhabitants of the farmhouse, which dates back to 1788, worked as stocking makers as a sideline. Today it serves as a museum of local history, but the parlour...

  Location: Oberstaufen

• Museum / Exhibition Centre - currently closed: Museum Industriekultur mit Motorradmuseum (Museum of Industrial Culture with Motorcycle Museum)

  

  In a former screw factory from the 1920s, everything today revolves around the history of industrialisation in Nuremberg from the 19th century to structural change in the present. Here, working and...

  Location: Nürnberg

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Museum Viechtach (Museum Viechtach)

  

  The Museum Viechtach (Museum Viechtach) shows how people lived in Viechtach in the 19th century in three areas of a 300-year-old house: 300 historical views of the village make its structural...

  Location: Viechtach

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Wittelsbachermuseum (Wittelsbach Museum)

  

  Once part of the Aichach city wall, the Untere Tor now houses an exhibition on the archaeology of the city area. The focus is on the excavations at the ancestral castle of the Wittelsbach dynasty in...

  Location: Aichach

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Pfarreimuseum Greßthal (Parish Museum Greßthal)

  

  The Parish Museum (Pfarreimuseum Greßthal) in the baroque parish courtyard of Greßthal houses the parish treasury from over 550 years of parish history, but also the historical library with over 400...

  Location: Wasserlosen

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Nähmaschinenmuseum (Sewing machine museum)

  

  380 sewing machines from 140 years: The museum in the monastery laundry in St Ottilien invites you on a journey through the history of the sewing machine. Numerous rarities from all over the world can...

  Location: St. Ottilien