Museums & culture in Germany
Museums, galleries, open-air heritage sites and the collections worth planning a day around.
half-timbered town
Alsfeld
gallery
Alte Pinakothek
residence town
Altenburg
orchard region
Altes Land
pilgrimage town
Altötting
monastery brewery
Andechs Monastery
old town
Augsburg Old Town
composer museum
Bach House Eisenach
wine village
Bacharach
spa town
Bad Ems
planned town
Bad Karlshafen
walled town
Bad Münstereifel
salt town
Bad Reichenhall
spa town
Bad Tölz
imperial palace town
Bad Wimpfen
spa town
Baden-Baden
tower town
Bautzen
festival
Bayreuth Festival
composer museum
Beethoven House
wine town
Bernkastel-Kues
villa quarter
Blankenese
motor museum
BMW Welt and Museum
island city
Brandenburg an der Havel
half-timbered town
Calw
experimental archaeology
Campus Galli
half-timbered town
Celle
open-air museum
Cloppenburg Museum Village
festival
Cologne Carnival
modernist building
Dessau Bauhaus
museum
Deutsches Museum
walled town
Dinkelsbühl
library
Duchess Anna Amalia Library
brewing town
Einbeck
observatory
Einstein Tower
tradition
Erzgebirge Woodcraft
old town
Esslingen am Neckar
harbour town
Flensburg
tradition
Franconian Beer Country
mining town
Freiberg
old town
Freiburg Old Town
cathedral and brewery
Freising and Weihenstephan
canal town
Friedrichstadt
walled town
Fritzlar
baroque city
Fulda
old town
Füssen Old Town
exhibition hall
Gasometer Oberhausen
walled town
Gengenbach
museum
German Clock Museum
museum
German Emigration Center
mining museum
German Mining Museum
writer's house
Goethe House Weimar
university town
Göttingen
treasury
Green Vault
fishing village
Greetsiel
university town and ruin
Greifswald and Eldena Ruins
museum
Grimm World Kassel
renaissance town
Güstrow
printing museum
Gutenberg Museum
courtyard complex
Hackesche Höfe
weser renaissance town
Hameln
half-timbered town
Hann. Münden
viking site
Hedeby Viking Museum
open-air museum
Hessenpark Open-Air Museum
harbour town
Husum
gemstone town
Idar-Oberstein
sailing regatta
Kiel Week
old town
Konstanz Old Town
island old town
Köpenick Old Town
old town
Landsberg am Lech
old town
Landshut Old Town
island town
Lindau
salt town
Lüneburg
reformation town
Lutherstadt Wittenberg
open-air museum
LWL Open-Air Museum Detmold
university town
Marburg
castle town
Meersburg
porcelain city
Meissen
motor museum
Mercedes-Benz Museum
half-timbered town
Michelstadt
half-timbered town
Miltenberg
alpine town
Mittenwald
brick gothic town
Mölln
half-timbered town
Monschau
market street
Münster Prinzipalmarkt
artists' town and lake
Murnau and Staffelsee
art museum
Museum Barberini
gallery
Museum Island
art museum
Museum Ludwig
natural history museum
Natural History Museum Berlin
prehistory museum
Neanderthal Museum
visitor centre
Nebra Ark
rebuilt quarter
Nikolaiviertel
walled town
Nördlingen
village
Oberammergau
tradition
Oktoberfest and Beer Culture
mining landscape
Ore Mountains Mining Region
old town
Passau Old Town
open-air museum
Pile Dwellings of Unteruhldingen
motor museum
Porsche Museum
planned quarter
Potsdam Dutch Quarter
island town
Ratzeburg
tower town
Ravensburg
monastic island
Reichenau Island
hanseatic town
Rostock Old Town
half-timbered town
Schiltach
half-timbered town
Schmalkalden
historic quarter
Schnoor Quarter
salt town
Schwäbisch Hall
theatre
Semperoper
natural history museum
Senckenberg Natural History Museum
walled town
Soest
church
St Thomas Church Leipzig
gallery
Stadel Museum
brick gothic town
Tangermünde
technology museum
Technik Museum Speyer
wine town
Traben-Trarbach
university town
Tübingen
baltic resort
Usedom Imperial Resorts
open-air museum
Vogtsbauernhof Open-Air Museum
old town
Wasserburg am Inn
half-timbered town
Wernigerode
optics town
Wetzlar
spa city
Wiesbaden
hanseatic town
Wismar
ducal town
Wolfenbüttel
artists' colony
Worpswede
planetarium
Zeiss Planetarium Jena
aviation museum
Zeppelin Museum
walled town