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Augsburg Augsburg (; bar , Augschburg , links=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabian_German , label=Swabian German, , ) is a city in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, around west of Bavarian capital Munich. It is a university town and regional seat of the ' ...

* Augsburg Puppet Theater museum *

Augsburg Railway Park The Augsburg Railway Park (''Bahnpark Augsburg'') is a railway museum in Augsburg on part of the former Augsburg locomotive shed owned by the Deutsche Bahn. Following reconstruction work, the park officially reopened on 13 April 2009. In the futu ...

* Fuggerei museum *

German Ice Hockey Hall of Fame The German Ice Hockey Hall of Fame, also called Eishockeymuseum in German, was founded in 1988 and is located in Augsburg. The hall honors individuals who have contributed to ice hockey in Germany, and displays memorabilia depicting contributions of ...

Bayreuth Bayreuth (, ; bar, Bareid) is a town in northern Bavaria, Germany, on the Red Main river in a valley between the Franconian Jura and the Fichtelgebirge Mountains. The town's roots date back to 1194. In the 21st century, it is the capital of U ...

Kunstmuseum Bayreuth The Kunstmuseum Bayreuth is a museum for modern art, opened in 1999 in Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany. The historic rooms of the baroque former town hall present exhibitions with contemporary art and classical modern art. The offer includes guided to ...

Eichstätt Eichstätt () is a town in the federal state of Bavaria, Germany, and capital of the district of Eichstätt. It is located on the Altmühl river and has a population of around 13,000. Eichstätt is also the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese ...

Jura Museum The Jura Museum located in Willibaldsburg castle in the town of Eichstätt, Germany, is a natural history museum that has an extensive exhibit of Jurassic fossils from the quarries of Solnhofen and surroundings, including marine reptiles, pterosaur ...

Feucht Feucht is a market town and municipality southeast of Nuremberg in the district of Nürnberger Land in Bavaria, Germany. The name Feucht () is derived from the Old High German noun "viuhtje" - "fichta", which is the spruce tree (vernacularly Féic ...

Hermann Oberth Space Travel Museum The Hermann Oberth Space Travel Museum (Hermann-Oberth-Raumfahrt-Museum, or Hermann-Oberth-Museum for short) is a museum of space technology in the Franconian city of Feucht in Bavaria, Germany. It commemorates the life work of the famous visio ...

Kempten Kempten (, (Swabian German: )) is the largest Town#Germany, town of Allgäu, in Swabia (Bavaria), Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. The population was about 68,000 in 2016. The area was possibly settled originally by Celts, but was later taken over by th ...

* Alpin-Museum, largest museum in Europe of the history of the Alpes

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...

;Art museums *

Alte Pinakothek The Alte Pinakothek (, ''Old Pinakothek'') is an art museum located in the Kunstareal area in Munich, Germany. It is one of the oldest galleries in the world and houses a significant collection of Old Master paintings. The name Alte (Old) Pinak ...

Bavarian National Museum The Bavarian National Museum (german: Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, links=no) in Munich is one of the most important museums of decorative arts in Europe and one of the list of largest art museums in the world , largest art museums in Germany. S ...

* Bavarian State Archaeological Collection *

Bavarian State Painting Collections The Bavarian State Painting Collections (german: Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen), based in Munich, Germany, oversees artwork held by the Free State of Bavaria. It was established in 1799 as ''Centralgemäldegaleriedirektion''. Artwork includes ...

Glyptothek The Glyptothek () is a museum in Munich, Germany, which was commissioned by the Bavarian King Ludwig I of Bavaria, Ludwig I to house his collection of Ancient Greek art, Greek and Roman art, Roman sculptures (hence γλυπτο- ''glypto-'' "sculp ...

Goetz Collection The Goetz Collection (Sammlung Goetz) is a private collection of contemporary art in Munich, Germany. It opened in 1992. The collection is owned and continually being enlarged by the former gallery dealer Ingvild Goetz, who presents the collectio ...

* Haus der Kunst *

Lenbachhaus The Lenbachhaus () is a building housing an art museum in 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 and was expa ...

Munich Residenz The Residenz (, ''Residence'') in central Munich is the former royal palace of the Wittelsbach monarchs of Bavaria. The Residenz is the largest city palace in Germany and is today open to visitors for its architecture, room decorations, and displ ...

Munich Stadtmuseum The Munich Stadtmuseum (German: "Münchner Stadtmuseum") or Munich City Museum, is the city museum of Munich. It was founded in 1888 by Ernst von Destouches. It is located in the former municipal arsenal and stables, both buildings of the late ...

* Museum Brandhorst *

Neue Pinakothek The Neue Pinakothek (, ''New Pinacotheca'') is an art museum in Munich, Germany. Its focus is European Art of the 18th and 19th centuries, and it is one of the most important museums of art of the nineteenth century in the world. Together with th ...

* Pinakothek der Moderne * Schackgalerie * Staatliche Antikensammlungen * Staatliche Sammlung für Ägyptische Kunst *

Museum Five Continents The Museum Five Continents or Five Continents Museum (german: Museum Fünf Kontinente), located in Munich, Germany, is a museum for non-European artworks and objects of cultural value. Its name until 9 September 2014 was Bavarian State Museum of E ...

;Cultural history museums *

Marstallmuseum The Marstallmuseum (''Museum in the former royal stables '') in Munich is one of the most important museums for court carriages in the world. It is located in the ''South Wing'' of Nymphenburg Palace. On display is a vehicle park from the time of ...

Deutsches Brauereimuseum The ''Deutsche Brauereimuseum'' ("German brewery museum") at the ''St.-Jakobs-Platz'' in Munich was founded in 1952 on the initiative of the Bavarian Hofbräuhaus. It is the most famous museum of its kind in Germany and is part of the local city mu ...

* Deutsches Jagd- und Fischereimuseum *

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. It is situated between the main synagogue Ohel Jakob and the Jewish Co ...

* Valentin-Museum in the

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 (''Isartor'', '' Sendlinger Tor'' a ...

;Natural history museums *

Museum of Man and Nature :''This about the German museum; for the Canadian one, see Manitoba Museum''. The Museum Mensch und Natur (English Museum of Man and Nature) is a natural history museum. It is a tenant of the Nymphenburg Palace in Munich, Germany. Bear exhibit ...

Paläontologisches Museum München The Palaeontological Museum in Germany (''Paläontologisches Museum München''), is a German national natural history museum located in the city of Munich, Bavaria. It is associated with the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität. It has a large c ...

Zoologische Staatssammlung München The Bavarian State Collection of Zoology (german: Zoologische Staatssammlung München) or ZSM is a major German research institution for zoological systematics in Munich. It has over 20 million zoological specimens. It is one of the largest natur ...

Museum Witt The Museum Witt Munich (MWM) 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. Collection The museum was established in 1980 by Thomas J. Witt. Hi ...

;Technology museums *

BMW Museum The BMW Museum is an automobile museum of BMW history located near the Olympiapark in Munich, Germany. The museum was established in 1973, shortly after the Summer Olympics opened. From 2004 to 2008, it was renovated in connection with the con ...

Deutsches Museum The Deutsches Museum (''German Museum'', officially (English: ''German Museum of Masterpieces of Science and Technology'')) in Munich, Germany, is the world's largest museum of science and technology, with about 28,000 exhibited objects from ...

Neuenmarkt Neuenmarkt is a municipality in the district of Kulmbach in Bavaria in Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, an ...

German Steam Locomotive Museum The German Steam Locomotive Museum (''Deutsches Dampflokomotiv-Museum'') or DDM is located at the foot of the famous ''Schiefe Ebene'' ramp on the Ludwig South-North Railway in Neuenmarkt, Upper Franconia. This region is in northern Bavaria, Ge ...

Nuremberg Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ...

;Art museums * Albrecht-Dürer-Haus ''(Albrecht Dürer's House)'' *

Kunsthalle Nürnberg The Kunsthalle Nürnberg is an art centre founded in 1967, near the city centre. It organizes exhibitions by contemporary international artists in its galleries in Nuremberg. The Kunsthalle commissions new work by a majority of the artists it wo ...

''(Gallery of Contemporary Art)'' * Kunsthaus im KunstKulturQuartier ''(Art house at the art and culture area)'' * Kunstvilla im KunstKulturQuartier ''(Art villa at the art and culture area)'' *

Neues Museum Nürnberg Neues Museum Nürnberg (NMN) is a museum for modern and contemporary art and design in Nuremberg. Architecture In 1990 the Bavarian government decided to build a 20th-century museum. The building in which the museum is located was designed by ...

''(Museum for Contemporary Art)'' ;History and culture museums * Dokumentationszentrum Reichsparteitagsgelände ''(Nazi Party Rally Grounds Documentation Center)'' *

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

''(German National Museum)'' *

Historischer Kunstbunker The Historische Kunstbunker (Historic art bunker) is a tunnel complex under Nuremberg Castle in the old city of Nuremberg, southern Germany. It forms part of the Nuremberg Historic Mile. In the Middle Ages, a Felsengänge, Nuremberg, network of ...

''(World War II Art Bunker)'' * Mittelalterliche Lochgefägnisse ''(Medieval Dungeons Nuremberg)'' * Memorium Nürnberger Prozesse ''(Memorium Nuremberg Trials)'' * Museum Tuscherschloss und Hirsvogelsaal ''(Museum Tucher Mansion and Hirsvogel Hall)'' * Spielzeugmuseum Nürnberg ''(Nuremberg Toy Museum)'' * Stadtmuseum Fembohaus ''(City Museum at Fembo House)'' ;Science and nature museums * DB-Museum ''(DB Railway Museum)'' * Deutsches Museum Nürnberg ''(Future Museum)'' * Museum Industriekultur ''(Museum of Industrial Culture)'' * Museum für Kommunikation ''(Museum of Communications)'' * Naturhistorisches Museum Nürnberg ''(Natural History Museum Nuremberg)'' * Turm der Sinne ''(Tower of the Senses)''

Regensburg Regensburg or is a city in eastern Bavaria, at the confluence of the Danube, Naab and Regen rivers. It is capital of the Upper Palatinate subregion of the state in the south of Germany. With more than 150,000 inhabitants, Regensburg is the f ...

* Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte: Museum

Solnhofen Solnhofen is a municipality in the district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen in the region of Middle Franconia in the ' of Bavaria in Germany. It is in the Altmühl valley. The local area is famous in geology and palaeontology for Solnhofen limest ...

Bürgermeister-Müller-Museum The Bürgermeister-Müller-Museum is a natural history museum in Solnhofen, Germany. In 1954 the mayor Friedrich Mueller brought his private collection to the public. In 1968 the museum was officially founded and opened in 1970. The museum collect ...

Würzburg Würzburg (; Main-Franconian: ) is a city in the region of Franconia in the north of the German state of Bavaria. Würzburg is the administrative seat of the ''Regierungsbezirk'' Lower Franconia. It spans the banks of the Main River. Würzburg is ...

Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg The Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg is a municipal art museum located at Veitshöchheimer Strasse 5, Würzburg, Northern Bavaria, Germany. It is open daily except Monday; an admission fee is charged. The museum opened in 2002 within a convert ...

Würzburg Residence The Würzburg Residence (German: ''Würzburger Residenz'') is a palace in Würzburg, Germany. Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt and Maximilian von Welsch, representatives of the Austrian/South German Baroque style, were involved in the construction, ...

Berlin

Brandenburg

Potsdam Potsdam () is the capital and, with around 183,000 inhabitants, largest city of the German state of Brandenburg. It is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. Potsdam sits on the River Havel, a tributary of the Elbe, downstream of B ...

Museum Barberini The Museum Barberini is an art museum in Potsdam opened in 2017. Its exhibitions range from the so-called Old Masters to contemporary art, with an emphasis on impressionist painting. Centered around works from the collection of its founder and p ...

Sanssouci Sanssouci () is a historical building in Potsdam, near Berlin. Built by Prussian King Frederick the Great as his summer palace, it is often counted among the German rivals of Versailles. While Sanssouci is in the more intimate Rococo style and ...

Sanssouci Picture Gallery The Picture Gallery (german: Bildergalerie) in the Sanssouci Park of Potsdam was built in 1755–64 during the reign of Frederick II of Prussia under the supervision of Johann Gottfried Büring. The Picture Gallery is situated east of the palace ...

Bremen

* Gerhard Marcks House *

Kunsthalle Bremen The Kunsthalle Bremen is an art museum in Bremen, Germany. It is located close to the Bremen Old Town on the "Culture Mile" (german: Kulturmeile). The Kunsthalle was built in 1849, enlarged in 1902 by architect Eduard Gildemeister, and expanded ...

* Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum * Übersee Museum Bremen *

Universum Science Center The Universum Bremen is a science museum in Bremen, Germany. Visitors are encouraged to interact with most of the approximately 250 exhibits. It receives on average 450,000 visitors annually. History The Universum Bremen opened in September 20 ...

* Weserburg (modern art) * Wilhelm Wagenfeld House (design exhibitions)

Bremerhaven Bremerhaven (, , Low German: ''Bremerhoben'') is a city at the seaport of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, a state of the Federal Republic of Germany. It forms a semi-enclave in the state of Lower Saxony and is located at the mouth of the Riv ...

Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum The German Maritime Museum (german: Deutsches Schifffahrtsmuseum (DSM)) is a museum in Bremerhaven, Germany. It is part of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community. The main museum building was opened on 5 September 1975 by then-presi ...

German Emigration Center The German Emigration Center (german: Deutsches Auswandererhaus) is a museum located in Bremerhaven, Germany dedicated to the history of German emigration, especially to the United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), comm ...

Hamburg

Hesse

Darmstadt Darmstadt () is a city in the States of Germany, state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Area, Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region). Darmstadt has around 160,000 inhabitants, making it th ...

Hessisches Landesmuseum Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt (HLMD) is a large multidisciplinary museum in Darmstadt, Germany. The museum exhibits Rembrandt, Beuys, a primeval horse and a mastodon under the slogan "The whole world under one roof". As one of the oldest pub ...

Frankfurt Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...

Caricatura Museum Frankfurt The Caricatura Museum, official name Caricatura Museum für Komische Kunst, is a museum for comic art in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany. It shows a in a permanent exhibition works by the artists of the Neue Frankfurter Schule, and additionally exhi ...

Frankfurter Kunstverein The Frankfurt Art Association (german: link=no, Frankfurter Kunstverein) is an art museum founded in 1829 by a group of influential citizens of the city of Frankfurt, Germany. The aim of the institution is to support the arts in the city, which w ...

German Architecture Museum The German Architecture Museum (german: Deutsches Architekturmuseum, links=no) (DAM) 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 ...

Goethe House The Goethe House is a writer's house museum located in the Innenstadt district of Frankfurt, Germany. It is the birthplace and childhood home of German poet and playwright Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It is also the place where Goethe wrote hi ...

* Historic Railway, Frankfurt *

Historical Museum, Frankfurt The Historical Museum (German: Historisches Museum) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, was founded in 1878, and includes cultural and historical objects relating to the history of Frankfurt and Germany. It moved into the Saalhof in 1955, and a new ex ...

Jewish Museum Frankfurt The Jewish Museum Frankfurt am Main is the oldest independent Jewish Museum in Germany. It was opened by Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl on 9 November 1988, the 50th anniversary of ''Kristallnacht''. The Jewish Museum collects, preserves and com ...

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. Max Hollein was the dir ...

Museum für angewandte Kunst A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make thes ...

Museum Giersch The Museum Giersch is an art gallery on the Main River in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in the Museumsufer area. The museum opened in 2000. It hosts a changing series of exhibitions displaying the art and cultural history of the Rhine-Main area ...

* Museum für Kommunikation *

Museum für Moderne Kunst The Museum für Moderne Kunst (''Museum of Modern Art''), or short MMK, in Frankfurt, was founded in 1981 and opened to the public 6 June 1991. The museum was designed by the Viennese architect Hans Hollein. Because of its triangular shape, it i ...

Museum der Weltkulturen The Museum of World Cultures (german: link=no, Museum der Weltkulturen) is an ethnological museum in Frankfurt, Germany. Until 2001 it was called the Museum of Ethnology (''Museum für Völkerkunde''). History It was founded in 1904, as ...

Naturmuseum Senckenberg The Naturmuseum Senckenberg is a museum of natural history, located in Frankfurt am Main. It is the second-largest of its type in Germany. The museum contains a large and diverse collection of birds with 90,000 bird skins, 5,050 egg sets, 17,0 ...

Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt The Schirn Kunsthalle is a Kunsthalle in Frankfurt, Germany, located in the old city between the Römer and the Frankfurt Cathedral. The Schirn exhibits both modern and contemporary art. It is the main venue for temporary art exhibitions in Fr ...

Städel The Städel, officially the ''Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie'', is an art museum in Frankfurt, with one of the most important collections in Germany. The Städel Museum owns 3,100 paintings, 660 sculptures, more than 4,600 ...

Gießen Giessen, spelled Gießen in German (), is a town in the German state (''Bundesland'') of Hesse, capital of both the district of Giessen and the administrative region of Giessen. The population is approximately 90,000, with roughly 37,000 univers ...

Mathematikum The Mathematikum is a science museum, located in Gießen, Germany, which offers a huge variety of mathematical hands-on exhibits. It was founded by Albrecht Beutelspacher, a German mathematician. The Mathematikum opened its doors to visitors on ...

Kassel Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel and the district of the same name and had 201,048 inhabitants in December 2020 ...

Fridericianum The Fridericianum is a museum in Kassel, Germany. Built in 1779, it is one of the oldest public museums in Europe.

* Schloss Wilhelmshöhe * Neue Gallerie * Palais Bellevue * Hessisches Landesmuseum * Astronomisch-Physikalisches Kabinett * Grimmwelt * Naturkundemuseum * Stadtmuseum * Spohr Museum * Straßenbahn Museum * Museum für Sepulkralkultur * Deutsches Tapetenmuseum * documenta-Halle * Caricatura Kassel

Offenbach

German Leather Museum The German Leather Museum (''Deutsches Ledermuseum''), located in Offenbach am Main, Hesse, Germany, is one of the largest leather museums in the world. It has a wide variety of leather items, including some exhibits, which are believed to be mor ...

Klingspor Museum The Klingspor-Museum is a museum in Offenbach, Germany, specializing in the art of modern book production, typography and type. It includes a collection of fine art books from Karl Klingspor, one of the owners of Klingspor Type Foundry in Offe ...

Wiesbaden Wiesbaden () is a city in central western Germany and the capital of the state of Hesse. , it had 290,955 inhabitants, plus approximately 21,000 United States citizens (mostly associated with the United States Army). The Wiesbaden urban area ...

Museum Wiesbaden The Museum Wiesbaden is a two-branch museum of art and natural history in the Hessian capital of Wiesbaden, Germany. It is one of the three Hessian State museums, in addition to the museums in Kassel and Darmstadt. History The foundation of ...

Lower Saxony

Braunschweig Braunschweig () or Brunswick ( , from Low German ''Brunswiek'' , Braunschweig dialect: ''Bronswiek'') is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz Mountains at the farthest navigable point of the river Oker, which connects it to the Nor ...

Dankwarderode Castle Dankwarderode Castle (german: Burg Dankwarderode) on the ''Burgplatz'' ("castle square") in Braunschweig (Brunswick) is a Saxon lowland castle. It was the residence of the Brunswick dukes for centuries and, today, is part of the Herzog Anton Ulric ...

(Burg Dankwarderode; history) * Gerstäcker-Museum (about

Friedrich Gerstäcker Friedrich Gerstäcker (May 10, 1816 in Hamburg – May 31, 1872 in Braunschweig) was a German traveler and novelist. Biography He was the son of Friedrich Gerstäcker (1790–1825), a celebrated opera singer. After being apprenticed to a comm ...

, 1816-1872, traveler and novelist) *

Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum The Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum (HAUM) is an art museum in the German city of Braunschweig, Lower Saxony. History Founded in 1754, the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum is one of the oldest museums in Europe. The museum has its origins in the art and nat ...

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Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum (BLM) is a history museum in Braunschweig, Germany, operated by the state of Lower Saxony. The museum is scattered on four locations: ''Vieweghaus'', ''Hinter Ägidien'' (both in Braunschweig), ''Kanzlei'' (Wolfenbü ...

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Naturhistorisches Museum The Natural History Museum Vienna (german: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien) is a large natural history museum located in Vienna, Austria. It is one of the most important natural history museums worldwide. The NHM Vienna is one of the largest museum ...

(zoology) * Städtisches Museum (city history)

Einbeck

* PS Speicher

Hanover Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...

* Hannoversches Straßenbahn Museum *

Historisches Museum Hannover (german: Historisches Museum Hannover) is an historical museum situated in Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony, Germany. The museum was founded in 1903 as the Homeland Museum of the City of Hanover (). Its collections are related to the histor ...

kestnergesellschaft Kestner Gesellschaft (Kestner Society) is an art institution in Hanover, Germany, founded in 1916 to promote the arts. Its founders included the painter Wilhelm von Debschitz (1871–1948). The association blossomed under the management of and , ...

Kestner-Museum Museum August Kestner, previously ''Kestner-Museum'', is a museum in Hanover, Germany. It was founded in 1889. The museum was renamed ''Museum August Kestner'' in December 2007 to avoid confusion with the Kestnergesellschaft, a local art gallery. ...

Landesmuseum Hannover The Lower Saxon State Museum Hanover (german: Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover, italics=unset, or simply ) is the state museum of Lower Saxony in Hanover, Germany. Situated adjacent to the New Town Hall, the museum comprises the state ...

Sprengel Museum Sprengel Museum is a museum of modern art in Hanover, Lower Saxony, holding one of the most significant collections of modern art in Germany. It is located in a building situated adjacent to the Masch Lake (german: Maschsee) approximately south ...

Wilhelm Busch Museum The Wilhelm Busch Museum (german: Wilhelm Busch - Deutsches Museum für Karikatur und Zeichenkunst, links=no, "Wilhelm Busch - German Museum of Caricature and Drawings") is a museum in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany. It features the world's larges ...

Hildesheim Hildesheim (; nds, Hilmessen, Hilmssen; la, Hildesia) is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany with 101,693 inhabitants. It is in the district of Hildesheim, about southeast of Hanover on the banks of the Innerste River, a small tributary of the Lei ...

Roemer-und-Pelizaeus-Museum The Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim is an archaeological museum in Hildesheim, Germany. Mostly dedicated to ancient Egyptian and ancient Peruvian art, the museum also includes the second largest collection of Chinese porcelain in Europe ...

* Dommuseum Hildesheim

Meppen Meppen (; Northern Low Saxon: ''Möppen'') is a town in and the seat of the Emsland district of Lower Saxony, Germany, at the confluence of the Ems (river), Ems, Hase, and Nordradde rivers and the Dortmund–Ems Canal (DEK). The name stems from t ...

* Exhibition Centre for the Archaeology of the Emsland

Osnabrück Osnabrück (; wep, Ossenbrügge; archaic ''Osnaburg'') is a city in the German state of Lower Saxony. It is situated on the river Hase in a valley penned between the Wiehen Hills and the northern tip of the Teutoburg Forest. With a population ...

Felix Nussbaum Haus The Felix Nussbaum Haus is a museum in Osnabrück, Germany, which houses the paintings of German-Jewish painter Felix Nussbaum. The building also houses an exhibition space, which focuses on racism and intolerance. Origins By the 1980s, the cit ...

Wolfsburg Wolfsburg (; Eastphalian: ''Wulfsborg'') is the fifth largest city in the German state of Lower Saxony, located on the river Aller. It lies about east of Hanover and west of Berlin. Wolfsburg is famous as the location of Volkswagen AG's hea ...

Phaeno Science Center The Phæno Science Center is an interactive science center in Wolfsburg, Germany, completed in 2005. The Phæno Science Center Phæno arose from urban planning by the City of Wolfsburg. In 1998 City officials were developing a plot of vacant, ...

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Anklam Anklam [], formerly known as Tanglim and Wendenburg, is a town in the Western Pomerania region of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is situated on the banks of the Peene river, just 8 km from its mouth in the ''Kleines Haff'', the western ...

Otto-Lilienthal-Museum The Otto Lilienthal Museum in Anklam (Germany) is a museum dedicated to the "glider king" Otto Lilienthal, the flight pioneer, as well as a pioneer in technical, social and cultural projects. Lilienthal made over 2,000 flights in gliders of his d ...

Greifswald Greifswald (), officially the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald (german: Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald, Low German: ''Griepswoold'') is the fourth-largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostoc ...

* Botanical Museum Greifswald *

Pomeranian State Museum The Pomeranian State Museum (german: Pommersches Landesmuseum) in Greifswald, Western Pomerania, is a public museum primarily dedicated to Pomeranian history and arts. The largest exhibitions show archeological findings and artefacts from the ...

Neubrandenburg Neubrandenburg (lit. ''New Brandenburg'', ) is a city in the southeast of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is located on the shore of a lake called Tollensesee and forms the urban centre of the Mecklenburg Lakeland. The city is famous for its ...

Neubrandenburg Regional Museum The Neubrandenburg Regional Museum (german: Regionalmuseum Neubrandenburg) is a cultural history museum in Neubrandenburg, Germany. It was formed in 1872 at the initiative of the Neubrandenburg Museum Society (''Neubrandenburger Museumsvereins'') ...

Rostock Rostock (), officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock (german: link=no, Hanse- und Universitätsstadt Rostock), is the largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the state, c ...

Abbey of the Holy Cross, Rostock The Abbey of the Holy Cross (german: Kloster zum Heiligen Kreuz) in Rostock, Germany, was founded in the 13th century by Cistercian nuns. It is the only fully preserved abbey in the city. The complex includes the former abbey church which is u ...

*Frieden (museum ship) *Gelbensande#Hunting Castle, Gelbensande Hunting Lodge *Rostock Art Gallery *Zoological Collection Rostock

Rügen

*Granitz Hunting Lodge *Mönchgut Coastal Fishing Museum *Rügen Railway & Technology Museum

Schwerin

*Schwerin Palace *Staatliches Museum Schwerin *State Museum of Technology

Stralsund

*Stralsund Museum of Cultural History *German Oceanographic Museum **Ozeaneum

Waren (Müritz)

*Müritzeum

Others

*Darßer Ort Natureum *Groß Raden Archaeological Open Air Museum *Kranich Museum *Ludwigslust Palace *Malchow Abbey *Otto Lilienthal Museum, Otto Lilienthal Museum Anklam *Historical Technical Museum, Peenemünde, Peenemünde Historical-Technical Museum *Ukranenland

North Rhine-Westphalia

Aachen

* Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst

Bielefeld

* Kunsthalle Bielefeld

Bochum

* Bochum Dahlhausen Railway Museum * German Mining Museum

Bonn

* Beethoven House * Bonn Women's Museum * Haus der Geschichte * Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland * Kunstmuseum Bonn * Museum Koenig * Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn

Cologne

;Art museums * Käthe Kollwitz Museum (Cologne), Käthe Kollwitz Museum * Kolumba, art museum of the Archdiocese of CologneKolumba
Art museum of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cologne * Museum für Angewandte Kunst (Cologne), Museum of Applied Art * Museum Ludwig * Skulpturen Park Köln * Wallraf-Richartz Museum ;History and culture museums * EL-DE Haus * Fragrance Museum * Imhoff-Schokoladenmuseum * Romano-Germanic Museum * Schnütgen Museum

Dortmund

* German Football Museum * Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte * Museum Ostwall

Duisburg

* German Inland Waterways Museum * Lehmbruck Museum * Museum Küppersmühle

Düsseldorf

* Forum NRW * Alte Kunsthalle (Düsseldorf), Alte Kunsthalle * Kunsthalle Düsseldorf ** Kunst im Tunnel * Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen * Museum Kunst Palast

Essen

* Museum Folkwang

Hagen

* Hagen Open-air Museum * Osthaus-Museum Hagen

Mettmann

* Neanderthal Museum

Mönchengladbach

* Abteiberg Museum

Münster

* Westfälisches Museum für Naturkunde * Westphalian State Museum of Art and Cultural History

Nideggen

* Castle Museum, Nideggen, Castle Museum

Oberhausen

* LVR Industrial Museum

Viersen

* Städtische Galerie im Park Viersen

Wuppertal

* Bergische Museumsbahnen * Knipex#Knipex museum, Knipex Museum * Von der Heydt Museum

Rhineland-Palatinate

Fell, Rhineland-Palatinate, Fell

* Fell Exhibition Slate Mine

Freinsheim

* Historic Toy Museum, Freinsheim

Konz

* Roscheider Hof Open Air Museum

Mainz

* Gutenberg Museum * Landesmuseum Mainz * Museum of Ancient Seafaring * Romano-Germanic Central Museum (Mainz)

Speyer

* Technikmuseum Speyer

Trier

* Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier

Saarland

Saarbrücken

* Saarland Museum

Völklingen

* Völklingen Ironworks

Saxony

Chemnitz

* Gunzenhauser Museum * Staatliches Museum für Archäologie Chemnitz

Dresden

* Dresden City Museum * Dresden Transport Museum * German Hygiene Museum * Militärhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr * Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, including: ** Dresden Armory ** Dresden Museum of Ethnology ** Dresden Porcelain Collection ** Galerie Neue Meister ** Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister ** Grünes Gewölbe (Green Vault) ** Kupferstich-Kabinett (Dresden), Kupferstich-Kabinett ** Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon * State Museum of Zoology, Dresden

Leipzig

* Grassi Museum, including: ** Leipzig Museum of Applied Arts ** Leipzig Museum of Ethnography ** Museum of Musical Instruments of the University of Leipzig * Museum of Antiquities of the University of Leipzig * Museum der bildenden Künste * Naturkundemuseum Leipzig

Others

*Frohnauer Hammer *Ore Mountain Toy Museum, Seiffen *Embroidery Machine Museum, Plauen

Saxony-Anhalt

Halle/Saale

*Hallors and Saline Museum *Halle State Museum of Prehistory

Others

*Jerichow Monastery *Lutherhaus *Wernigerode Castle

Schleswig-Holstein

Kiel

* Zoological Museum of Kiel University

Lübeck

*Lübeck Museum of Theatre Puppets *St. Anne's Museum Quarter, Lübeck

Others

* Hedeby Viking Museum

Thuringia

Eichsfeld

* Borderland Museum Eichsfeld

Eisenach

* Bach House (Eisenach) * Lutherhaus Eisenach * Wartburg

Erfurt

* Margaretha Reichardt, Margaretha Reichardt Haus * Memorial and Education Centre Andreasstrasse * Naturkundemuseum Erfurt * Old Synagogue (Erfurt), Old Synagogue, Erfurt * Topf and Sons, Memorial site Topf & Söhne

Gera

* Otto Dix, Otto Dix Haus

Jena

* Optical Museum Jena

Weimar

* Bauhaus Museum, Weimar

External links

German Museums with English Websites

References

{{List of museums in Europe Museums in Germany, * Lists of museums in Germany, Germany education-related lists, Museums