In the Museum of Modern Art in Freiburg , masterpieces from the classic modern period up to the present day bear witness to the major artistic movements of the past 100 years.

The Protestant Augustinian monastery in Erfurt is a unique monument to medieval monastic architecture.

The Old Synagogue in Erfurt (1100), which was only rediscovered as such in the 1990s, is the oldest fully intact synagogue in central Europe.

The museum has exhibitions on the history of the Jewish community in Augsburg and the rural Bavarian Swabia region and also contains religious and cultural artefacts.

Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso, Germany's first and only museum dedicated to the artist, is housed in the listed Druffel’schen Hof built between 1784 and 1788 in the heart of Münster's historical old quarter, close to Rothenburg boulevard and surrounded by the Münster Arkaden mall.

Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hessen founded the Darmstadt Artists' Colony with the aim of radically reforming the arts and crafts of his region.