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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 Antikenmuseum Basel houses an outstanding collection of Egyptian, Greek, Italic, Etruscan and Roman works of art. It is the only museum in Switzerland exclusively devoted to ancient art and the...
The erstwhile capital city of the Regio Basiliensis still has much to offer: the largest Roman silver treasure, the impressive theatre, the atmospheric Roman house or the new city model made of bronze...
The Bernisches Historisches Museum is one of Switzerland’s most important history museums. Its collection is a cultural repository of the history of Bern and the world. Since the museum’s foundation...
A unique and original institution in the world of higher education and research, the National and University Library has a triple vocation: as a reference academic library for the Alsace region and...
The Château Vodou is a unique museum, which houses the world's largest private collection of West African vodou artefacts. Every exhibt has been used as part of religious practices: ancestor worship...
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...
The 'Dominikanermuseum Rottweil' opened in 1992 and comprises an exhibition space of around 1400 square metres. The subsidiary museum of the Archaeological Museum of the State Museum Baden-Baden and...
The Franziskanermuseum is located in a former monastery of Franciscans dating back to the 13th to 18th Century. The historical-cultural museum focuses on local history from the very beginning until...
In the immediate vicinity of the imperial cathedral of Speyer, the Historical Museum of the Palatinate presents outstanding temporary exhibitions on topics of archaeology, history, art and culture as...
The house offers four permanent collections: the world-renowned Trumpet Museum, the museum of City and Regional History, the Museum of the writer and poet Josef Victor von Scheffel and the Museum for...
Located in the heart of the city centre the Kurpfälzisches Museum (Palatinate Museum) is displaying the best it has to offer: the Palais Morass serves not only as headquarters but is also the most...
The Landesmuseum Mainz is located in the former „Golden-Ross-Kaserne” – or the Golden Steed Barracks. This unique baroque architectural ensemble was previously the large horse stables of the Elector...
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 village of Deneuvre is over 2,000 years old, and traces of its eventful past are now being revealed bit by bit. The originally Celtic village flourished during Roman times due to the establishment...
The Vindonissa Legionary Trail is the only Roman legionary camp in Switzerland. Here, 6,000 legionaries once prepared for their missions for the emperor in Rome. Today, Vindonissa can be experienced...
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 ‘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...
Founded in the 18th century, the Archaeological Museum is Strasbourg's oldest museum. Over three centuries of sometimes turbulent existence, it has amassed some very important collections. Housed in...
The Museum of History is located in the former barracks of the castle. Several comprehensive collections showcase different eras in the history of Belfort and its surroundings. Hundreds of military...
The Musée d'Histoire Naturelle et d'Ethnographie de Colmar was founded in 1859 by a society owning zoological and geological collections and almost 2,000 non-European objects, brought back between...
Located in the heart of Alsace, Molsheim has been a possession of the bishops of Strasbourg since the end of Antiquity. The city experienced its moment of glory after the Reformation, with the arrival...
The museum in the Palais de la Régence comprises three sections. The historical department hosts exhibits, which seem to come directly from a curiosity cabinet: a piece of meteorite praised by Jules...
The Gallo-Roman site of Biesheim and Kunheim owes its importance to its privileged location near a compulsory Rhine crossing point. Military occupation is paramount in the 1st and 4th centuries AD...
The Museum is located in a neo-Renaissance building, its architecture reminiscent of a 16th- century townhall in the Rhineland. The basement houses important archaeological collections, among which...
The History Museum is located in the heart of the city of Mulhouse in the old city hall that was built in 1552. It is one of the richest museums in the region and shows a cross-section through the...
The Pierre-Noël Museum invites visitors to explore the eventful past of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges and the surrounding region with its over thousand-year-old cultural heritage (4,000 years of history, art...
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 im Ritterhaus showcases more than 9,000 exhibits that cover history, heritage, nature and art. The collection does not only mirror the changing interest of the museum but invites you to...
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 Römerhalle Bad Kreuznach Museum brings together finds from the Roman period in the region and gives you a comprehensive picture of the culture of the Roman Empire on the river Nahe. Two...
The most important business in the city and region of Baselused to be the silk ribbon industry. Since the 16th century silk ribbons from Basel were considered as top-notch standard in international...
Archaeological excavations in the Blies valley on the French-German border brought to light a Celtic necropolis , a small town and a Roman villa. The princess' grave (370 BC) with its reconstructed...
The Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen (rem) have established themselves in recent years as an internationally operating complex of museums, an outstanding venue for exhibitions and a major center of research...
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...
The very popular Villa Rustica in Hechingen-Stein is one of the largest open-air museums of its kind in south-west Germany, characterised by partly reconstructed buildings from Roman times. Set in...
The museum of local history in Bad Krozingen hosts numerous exhibits from the Roman past and the Romans' everyday lives. The finds mainly stem from excavations in a development area on the outskirts...
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 Vindonissa Museum presents original finds from over 1,000 archaeological excavations and 100 years of systematic research into the former legionary camp of Vindonissa. Founded in 1912, it is the...