German Museums

Focuses on the archaeology of 260 AD to 750 AD in Southern Germany.

Collection includes medieval altars, reliquaries, and stained glass, as well as everyday glassware, ceramics, and swords and shields.

Bavarian State Library (in German)

The Bavarian National Museum has an interesting collection of artwork and armor.

220,000 on line images from German museums. Awesome and amazing.

The German Historical Museum

One of the premier cathedral treasury museums for religious artifacts.

The historical museum of the city of Frankfurt.

An insight into the history, culture, economy and everyday life of Cologne and its inhabitants, displaying works of art and everyday objects that illustrate the history of the city from the Middle Ages to the present day.

Medieval manuscripts, textiles, bronze, ivory, enamel and gold metalwork form an important focus in the Department of European Applied Arts and Design. All classical handicraft materials (ceramics, base and precious metals, glass, textiles and wood, furniture) out of every epoch up to the present are represented with outstanding exhibits.

Rothenburg's Medieval Crime Museum displays the development of jurisprudence to the 19th century -- a unique and complete glance at more than thousand years of legal history.

See the Lexikon der Archäologie am Obermain for information about many of the interesting archaeological finds presented here and in related exhibits.

The Medieval Torture Museum

Information about the museums of Nuremburg, including the Albrecht Dürer House, the Toy Museum, the Tucher Mansion Museum and Renaissance Gardens, the Historic Art Museum, and the Medieval Dungeons (under City Hall).

The Museum for Arts and Crafts

Art from the early Middle Ages to the Baroque in a medieval ecclesiastical building in Cologne. Includes medieval sculpture, woodcarving, stained glass, ivory, metalwork, and textiles.

The open-air museum of Lower Saxony, with original buildings dating back to the 16th century.

A medieval living history museum.

Displays finds illustrating everyday life in the Roman Empire, with a collection of Roman and early medieval jewelry.

We are five museums whose main interest lies in Rhenish ceramics - no wonder as our locations represent well-known pottery centres on the left and right of the Rhine river. We would like to draw your attention to the data bank as a part of our presentation. We are working on displaying our complete stocks of ceramics here. But we do not only want to acquaint you with the products of past generations of craftsmen. The programmes of our museums also include special exhibitions on a large variety of themes, international pottery markets, creative hands-on courses and an extensive service offer for children and adults.

This is a very handy directory of museums in Germany; it has email & and web links for museums as well as their current exhibits.

The Viking Museum of Hedeby.