- 'Runde Ecke' Stasi Museum, Leipzig
- A golden age at the Green Vault
- Alexandrowka Museum, Potsdam
- Alte Pinakothek, Munich
- August Horch Museum, Zwickau
- Augustinian monastery, Erfurt
- Bach House, Eisenach
- Bach Museum, Leipzig
- BallinStadt Emigration Museum, Hamburg
- Battle of Varus in Osnabrücker Land – Kalkriese Museum and Park
- Bauhaus Museum, Weimar
- Berlin Wall Memorial
- Berlin's Museum Island
- Borg Roman Villa Archaeology Park, Perl
- Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg
- Buchenwald Memorial Site, Weimar
- Buchheim Museum of Imagination, Bernried
- Carl Bosch Museum, Heidelberg
- Cathedral Museum
- Cathedral and Diocesan Museum, Mainz
- Central Romano-Germanic Museum/ Museum of Ancient Shipbuilding, Mainz
- Chemnitz Museum of Industry
- Children's Museum, Frankfurt
- City Museum Simeonstift in Trier
- Colombischlössle Archaeological Museum, Freiburg
- Daetz Centre, Lichtenstein
- Das Erbe – the mining exhibition in the Saarland
- Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
- Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden
- Documentation Centre of Everyday Life in East Germany, Eisenhüttenstadt
- Dornier Museum, Friedrichshafen
- Ethnological Museum, Bremen
- European Archaeological Park, Bliesbruck-Reinheim
- Experiminta, Frankfurt
- F60 Visitor Mine, Lusatia
- Felix Nussbaum Haus, Osnabrück
- Forum of Contemporary History, Leipzig
- Francke Foundations, Halle
- Friedenssaal, Münster
- Friedenstein Palace Foundation in Gotha, Herzogliches Museum
- Frieder Burda Museum, Baden-Baden
- Friedericianum Museum, Kassel
- GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts, Leipzig
- Gallery of Old & New Masters, Schwerin
- German Emigration Centre
- German Historical Museum, Berlin
- German Leather Museum, Offenbach
- German Mining Museum, Bochum
- German Museum, Munich
- German Sports and Olympics Museum, Cologne
- Germanic National Museum, Nuremberg
- Germany Museum of Technology, Berlin
- Geyser Discovery Centre in Andernach
- Goethe National Museum, Weimar
- Government bunker documentation site, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler
- Haithabu Viking Museum
- Hamburg Kunsthalle
- Handel House, Halle
- Haus der Kunst, Munich
- Herrenhausen Palace Museum, Hannover
- Herzog August Library, Wolfenbüttel
- Hessenpark open-air museum, Neu-Anspach/Taunus
- Historical Museum of the Palatinate, Speyer
- Hombroich Museum Island, Neuss
- Horst Janssen Museum, Oldenburg
- International Maritime Museum, Hamburg
- Isis and Magna Mater Temple, Mainz
- Jewish Culture Museum and Synagogue, Augsburg
- Jewish Museum
- K20 Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf
- K21 Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf
- Karl Marx House, Trier
- Karlsruhe State Art Gallery
- Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover
- Kunsthalle Bremen
- Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
- Kunstpalast Museum, Düsseldorf
- LWL Museum of Natural History with Planetarium, Münster
- Leistikowstrasse memorial and cultural centre, Potsdam
- Lenbachhaus, Munich
- Liebieghaus, Frankfurt
- Lokschuppen Exhibition Centre, Rosenheim
- Ludwig Museum in the Deutschherrenhaus, Koblenz
- MARTa Herford
- Main-Franconian Museum, Würzburg
- Medieval Crime Museum, Rothenburg
- Mendelssohn House
- Middle Rhine Museum, Koblenz
- Mildenberg brickworks centre and industrial culture park
- Military History Museum, Dresden
- Multimar Wattforum National Park Centre, Tönning
- Museen am Meer, Kiel
- Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig
- Museum of Modern Art, Freiburg
- Museum of Natural History and Ethnological Collection, Freiburg
- Museum of Natural History, Berlin
- Museum of Pre-History and Early History, Saarbrücken
- Museum of World Cultures, Frankfurt
- Museum of the Bavarian Kings, Hohenschwangau
- NRW Forum Düsseldorf
- National Socialist Documentation Centre of the City of Cologne
- Natural History Museum, Mainz
- Neanderthal Museum, Mettmann
- Neue Pinakothek, Munich
- Nibelung Museum, Worms
- Nolde Foundation Seebüll
- Nuremberg Trials Memorial
- Old Masters Gallery and New Masters Gallery, Dresden
- Old Synagogue, Erfurt
- Old Town Hall with the Imperial Diet document collection, Regensburg
- Ozeaneum aquarium, Stralsund
- Palatinate Museum, Heidelberg
- Potsdam Film Museum
- Rautenstrauch Joest Museum – Cultures of the World, Cologne
- Reiss Engelhorn Museums, Mannheim
- Rhenish State Museum, Trier
- Robert Schumann House, Zwickau
- Romanticum, Koblenz
- Royal Cabinet of Mathematical and Physical Instruments in Zwinger Palace, Dresden
- Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken
- Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
- Schloss Freudenberg, Wiesbaden
- Science in action: the Phæno in Wolfsburg
- Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt
- Shipbuilding and Maritime Museum in the IGA Park, Rostock
- Speicherstadt Museum, Hamburg
- Speyer Technology Museum
- St. Anne's museum quarter, Lübeck
- State Museum of Prehistory, Halle
- State Museum, Mainz
- Stuttgart Art Museum
- Stuttgart State Gallery
- Terra Mineralia, Freiberg
- The Neuer Riesensaal, Dresden
- Topography of Terror, Berlin
- Toy Museum, Nuremberg
- Villa Schöningen, Potsdam
- Viniculture Museum, Stuttgart
- Wallraf Richartz Museum, Cologne
- Warnemünde Local History Museum
- Weissenhof Museum in Haus Le Corbusier, Stuttgart
- Wentzingerhaus Museum of City History, Freiburg
- Wiesbaden Museum
- Wolfsburg Art Museum
- Women's Museum, Wiesbaden
- Württemberg State Museum, Stuttgart
- Xanten Archaeological Park
- Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen
- Zwinger & Old Master Gallery in Dresden
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Schirn art gallery, Frankfurt
© Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 2006 (Norbert Miguletz)
Rautenstrauch Joest Museum – Cultures of the World
©Atelier Brückner/Michael Jungblut
Museum of Natural History and Ethnological Collection
©Städtische Museen Freiburg
Government bunker documentation site
©Dokumentationsstätte Regierungsbunker (Kajo Meyer)
Museums in Germany – where history and culture are brought to life
The 6,250 or so museums in Germany serve as worlds of discovery and use exciting concepts to explore art and history, technology and architecture, literature and the natural world. Expect plenty of 'aha' moments!
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Gain an insight into various cultural epochs at Berlin's Museum Island, admire art from the Old Masters to the modern age in Frankfurt's Städel Institute, and learn about science and technology at the world-renowned Deutsches Museum in Munich. Germany's museums are informative, entertaining and lots of fun.
Boredom is a thing of the past! Germany's many museums cover an incredible range of subjects and inspire imagination, discovery and learning.