History and cultural heritage of Baden-Württemberg
The municipality of Vörstetten is situated between the Black Forest and Kaiserstuhl, directly in front of Freiburg's gates. In an open-air museum on the northern edge of the idyllic half-timbered...
The new Augustiner Museum houses a renowned art collection with works ranging from the Middle Ages up to the Baroque period, as well as paintings from the 19th century. Thanks to the architect...
The Badisches Landesmuseum (Baden State Museum) in Karlsruhe, located in the Baden region of the state of Baden-Württemberg, is one of the most active museums in Germany. It is conceived as an all-in...
Mannheim Palace was built beginning in 1720 under Elector Carl Philipp as one of the largest absolutist Baroque palaces on the Upper Rhine. The Mannheim Court of his heir Carl Theodor enjoyed an...
It is considered to be a green oasis in the midst of the city of Karlsruhe with its residential palace - the Botanical Garden (Botanischer Garten). Located to the west of Karlsruhe Palace, it is...
From South Baden's oldest art works to medieval Freiburg: the Archaeological Museum, built in the Colombischlössle manor house in 1859/61, invites its visitors on a journey through time. The neo...
Banquet hall. Synagogue. Electric store. Place of the history of democracy. Cultural monument of national importance. The Salmen has an eventful history that makes the building unique in Offenburg's...
The German Clock Museum is located in the geographical heart of the Black Forest's clock-making industry. The Museum's 170-year-old collection of Black Forest clocks is the most comprehensive of its...
The southernmost part of the Black Forest is home to one of the most beautiful villages in the region of Lörrach. The history of the district of Ötlingen in the city of Weil was dominated by...
The Three-Countries Museum, just a few kilometres from Basel, has made the Three Countries Corner its theme. In the permanent exhibition, visitors can view the history and present of this border...
The House of Local History of Baden-Württemberg focuses on the history of south-west Germany from 1790 until today. More than 1,500 original objects, over 1,000 photos, various stories, films and info...
Maulbronn Monastery, founded in 1147, is an impressive document of the Cistercian culture and the best-preserved monastery complex north of the Alps. In the Middle Ages it was an important political...
The historically important town of Glatt is located in the eastern part of the Black Forest. The centre of the town is dominated by the impressive castle, an attraction for visitors from all over the...
The State Museum of Mining Baden-Württemberg, Sulzburg grants a comprehensive insight into the miners' world over the course of centuries. The exhibition covers the history of jasper mining, which...
The Old Castle in the heart of Stuttgart is both a place of legend and a place of history. Once upon a time the residence of the Dukes of Württemberg, BadenWürttemberg's largest museum of cultural...
The barn of the historical farm right behind the “Stapflehus“ at the Altweiler Lindenplatz is more than 200 years old. Tonio Paßlick collected more than 200 historical artefacts from barns and farms...
Like the town of Ladenburg, this little castle also has a rich history. The residence of the Bishop of Worms was built on the site of a medieval royal court. The building stands on the ruins of the...
The institution's beginnings date back to 1907, when it was founded by Mannheim's first city archivist Friedrich Walter. Having evolved from the Stadtarchiv Mannheim - Institut für Stadtgeschichte...
The ‘Markgräfler Museum Mühlheim' has become the most important museum of local history in Freiburg, Mulhouse and Basel/Lörrach. The museum is located in a neo-classicist house in the city centre of...
The neoclassical house from the year 1845 in the former centre of Altweil is home to the Museum at Lindenplatz. It served as a school and town hall for more than 120 years until the relocation of the...
The oldest museum of the Markgräfler region can be found inside the former grain storehouse right behind the medieval church St. Michael. It hosts valuable collections of aristocratic and bourgeois...
The Gallery of Ettlingen hosts a collection that comprises regional art from the 20th century until today and is influenced by artists of the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts, such as Karl Hofer (1878...
The museum in the late baroque residence of the artist and benefactor Johann Christian Wentzinger (1710 - 1797) displays treasures from 900 years of city history. The permanent exhibition is dedicated...
The museum in the castle offers an overview of the history of Gochsheim and the city of Kraichtal, the Counts of Eberstein and the nobility of Kraichgau. Two important exhibitions mark the highlights...
The museum in the Kleihues Building captivates visitors with its extraordinary award-winning architecture and its changing exhibitions, which are primarily dedicated to contemporary art and its...
Cut, drill, scrape and scratch – nowadays tools are made of steel. Yet this material didn't exist back in the Stone Age and still the people did have fine knifes. The blades were made of flintstone...
The Oberrheinische Bädermuseum (Museum of Bathing Culture in the Upper Rhine region) highlights the history of hydrotherapy from Roman times until today. Irrespective of present-day borders, it...
The Otto Erich Döbele Museum was opened in 2010. The artist (1916-2009) trained as a sculptor in Basel and then studied at the Academy of Arts in Munich. His numerous travels, particularly to the...
The Pfinzgaumuseum is located in the baroque Castle Karlsburg and is well known for its exhibition of the city of Durlach that was independent until 1938. The exhibition invites visitors to embark on...
The 'Residenzschloss Rastatt' was built by Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm and Margravine Sibylla Augusta of Baden-Baden according to the French example of Versailles. Italian artists provided the rooms with...
The Riedmuseum is Rastatt's contribution to the PAMINA-Rhinepark, which is a transnational project, a museum road with eight museums, an environmental centre and numerous information points at the...
Since April 2008 the Roman Museum in Güglingen presents the rich Roman past of the Zabergäu area, an extension of the Neckar valley located between the ridges of the Stromberg and Heuchelberg hills...
The symmetrically built Roman bath ruin in Badenweiler is one of the largest and most impressive bath ruins north of the Alps. The Roman name of the former spa was probably Aquae Villae. The bath ruin...
Bruchsal Palace is the only religious Baroque residence on the Upper Rhine. The palace was built beginning in 1720 by Prince Bishop Damian Hugo of Schönborn, who made it the center of his absolutistic...
Favorite Palace in Rastatt-Förch is the oldest and the only German "Porzellanschloss" (China Palace) to be preserved in its original form today. Margravine Sibylla Augusta of Baden-Baden had her...
Heidelberg Castle is one of the Germany's most important cultural monuments. It experienced a grand and eventful history as the royal seat of the Electors of the Palatinate from the 13th to the 18th...
The Ludwigsburg ensemble consisting of the Residential Palace, palace gardens and the pleasure palaces Favorite* and Monrepos is one of the most outstanding artistic achievements of the 18th century...
The origins of Schwetzingen Palace lie in a small knightly water palace and extend over an eventful history up to its greatest period of courtly splendor under the government of Elector Carl Theodor...
Johann Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen was not only the mayor of Renchen from 1667 until his death in 1676 but also one of the key figures of modern literature in Germany. In 1668/69 he published...
The 'Städtische Galerie Fruchthalle' hosts the exhibition ‘Art in Baden after 1945'. Works by important regional artists are displayed on more than 600 square meters. The highlight of the exhibition...
The Städtische Galerie (Municipal Gallery) invites visitors to the forum and the special exhibition area on the ground floor and to a selection of the most important pieces of art from the city's...
The Stadtmuseum Karlsruhe, which is situated in the Prinz-Max-Palais, is dedicated to the history of Karlsruhe. It regularly presents temporary exhibitions, the permanent exhibition is however closed.
Since February 2018 the history of Lahr can be found in three museum facilities: The clay oven factory, the Roman plant and the stork tower. In the new city museum in the clay kiln factory directly in...
The exhibition about the eventful history of Rastatt was re-arranged in 2004. The exhibition covers more than 300 years of history beginning with the Palatinate War of Succession in 1689, which...
Small but fine - this is the Stockach City Museum in the historic upper town of Stockach. In the two attic floors of the "Alte Forstamts", a historic building dating from 1706, you can experience...
The Castle of Rastatt has been home to the Military Historical Museum since 1956. The Military Historical Museum is considered to be one of the most influential of its kind in Europe. It was founded...
The semi-detached house designed by Le Corbusier, one of the most influential architects of the Twentieth Century, show the aesthetic, social and technical upheavals of Modernism. After extensive...