Museums
Museums of Germany
6,668 museums with a page of their own, best known first: what they show, their famous works and how many people visit.
Local museum458museums
Art museum256museums
Open-air museum118museums
Automobile museum98museums
Most visited museums
Visitors in the latest year on record, since 2015.
2Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
Dresden, Saxony
Art museum · 1560
500k visitors12 famous works
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4Alte Pinakothek
Munich, Bavaria
Art museum · 1836
194k visitors12 famous works
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5Bode Museum
Berlin, State of Berlin
Art museum · 1904
233k visitors12 famous works
6Alte Nationalgalerie
Berlin, State of Berlin
Art museum · 1876
316k visitors12 famous works
8Museum Folkwang
Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia
Art museum · 1902
800k visitors12 famous works
9Museum Ludwig
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia
Art museum · 1976
305k visitors12 famous works
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10Wallraf–Richartz Museum
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia
Art museum · 1824
154k visitors12 famous works
11Pinakothek der Moderne
Munich, Bavaria
Pinacotheca · 2002
296k visitors12 famous works
13Bavarian State Painting Collections
Munich, Bavaria
Art museum · 1799
1.14M visitors12 famous works
14Deutsches Historisches Museum
Berlin, State of Berlin
History museum · 1987
758k visitors2 famous works
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15Pergamon Museum
Berlin, State of Berlin
Art museum · 1910
751k visitors12 famous works
17Senckenberg Museum
Frankfurt am Main, Hesse
Natural history museum · 1907
620k visitors1 famous works
19Museum of Art and Crafts Hamburg
Hamburg, Hamburg
Art museum · 1868
241k visitors2 famous works
20Mercedes-Benz Museum
Fellbach, Baden-Wurttemberg
Automobile museum · 1936
876k visitors
21Bavarian National Museum
Munich, Bavaria
Cultural history museum · 1855
146k visitors1 famous works
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22Germanisches Nationalmuseum
Nuremberg, Bavaria
Art museum · 1852
406k visitors12 famous works
23Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte
Hamburg, Hamburg
History museum · 1908
62k visitors2 famous works
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24Romano-Germanic Museum
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia
1946
181k visitors1 famous works
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25Wall Museum
Berlin, State of Berlin
Military museum · 1963
870k visitors
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26Hamburger Bahnhof
Berlin, State of Berlin
Art museum · 1996
250k visitors
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27Schokoladenmuseum Köln
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia
1993
700k visitors
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32Museum Brandhorst
Munich, Bavaria
Art museum · 2009
102k visitors
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33Hamburger Kunsthalle
Hamburg, Hamburg
Art museum · 1868
12 famous works
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34Neanderthal Museum
Erkrath, North Rhine-Westphalia
1996
170k visitors
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35Schack Collection
Munich, Bavaria
Art museum · 1857
15k visitors2 famous works
37Viking Museum Haithabu
Busdorf, Schleswig-Holstein
History museum · 1985
139k visitors1 famous works
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41Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg
Art museum · 2005
161k visitors
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42German Hygiene Museum
Dresden, Saxony
1912
280k visitors
45Black Forest Open Air Museum
Hausach, Baden-Wurttemberg
Open-air museum · 1963
250k visitors
46Roscheider Hof Open Air Museum
Konz, Rheinland-Pfalz
Open-air museum · 1976
70k visitors
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48Linden Museum
Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg
Ethnographic museum · 1911
71k visitors1 famous works
50Detmold Open-air Museum
Detmold, North Rhine-Westphalia
Open-air museum · 1971
200k visitors
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52Deutsches Museum
Munich, Bavaria
Science museum · 1903
1.69M visitors
54Museum der bildenden Künste
Leipzig, Saxony
Art museum · 1848
11 famous works
55Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen
Uhldingen-Mühlhofen, Baden-Wurttemberg
Open-air museum · 1922
290k visitors
57NS Documentation Centre of the City of Cologne
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia
1979
97k visitors
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58Galerie Neue Meister
Dresden, Saxony
Art museum · 1843
8 famous works
59Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg
Art museum · 1846
12 famous works
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Kinds
What the museums show
| Kind | Museums with a page |
|---|---|
| Local museum | 458 |
| Art museum | 256 |
| Open-air museum | 118 |
| Automobile museum | 98 |
| City museum | 80 |
| Sculpture garden | 66 |
| Railway museum | 62 |
| Archaeological museum | 51 |
| Show mine | 43 |
| Technology museum | 42 |
| History museum | 42 |
| Natural history museum | 41 |
| Kunsthalle | 40 |
| Literary museum | 38 |