Germany museums travel guides

The Augustinermuseum fills a former Augustinian monastery church on Augustinerplatz with medieval sculpture, stained glass, baroque art and city history. Here is what the operator publishes about opening hours and admission, which collection areas anchor a visit, and how long to allow inside.

The Museum für Neue Kunst is Freiburg's forum for contemporary art, housed in a former girls' high school. This guide covers what the collection shows, admission tiers, opening pattern, suggested visit length, and the garden and café on site.

Erfurt's Museum für Thüringer Volkskunde is the city's everyday-history museum, where rural dress, painted furniture and village life sit alongside changing exhibitions. This guide explains what to see, how the ticket works across the municipal museums, opening hours, family programming and how to pair it with Erfurt's other history collections.

The Fembohaus is Nuremberg's municipal city-history museum, set in a late-Renaissance merchant's house on the climb toward the Imperial Castle. This guide covers opening hours and holiday exceptions, admission and the day-ticket upgrade, guided-tour languages, step-free access, and what to see inside.

Nuremberg's toy trade stretches back more than 600 years, and the Spielzeugmuseum condenses that story into a stack of floors in the Old Town. This guide walks you through what sits on each level, explains the seasonal opening pattern published for the museum, and flags the details worth confirming with the operator before you travel.

The Stadtmuseum Simeonstift tells Trier's story through paintings, sculpture, decorative arts and wider holdings such as Coptic textiles, furniture and East Asian small sculpture. It sits in the former monastery buildings around the Brunnenhof, right beside the Porta Nigra, and it is not an archaeology museum. This guide covers what the collection is, how it complements the Roman gate next door, how long to allow, and what to check before travelling.

The historic Buddenbrookhaus on Mengstraße is closed for a major rebuild, so the rooms associated with Thomas Mann's novel cannot be visited right now. The museum keeps working through a shop and information point between Marienkirche and Rathaus, plus events and exhibitions at other venues in Lübeck.

The Günter Grass House at Glockengießerstraße 21 in Lübeck's Old Town is a museum about the Nobel laureate as a writer, graphic artist and sculptor, not his former home. This guide covers the permanent exhibition, special shows, family activities, digital offerings and nearby literary sites.

The St. Annen Museum occupies a former convent for unmarried patrician daughters in Lübeck's Museumsquartier St. Annen. Its spine is a late-Gothic cloister from 1512, and the collections range from medieval altars to a 25-room upper-floor display of everyday life. A separate Kunsthalle shares the quarter but has its own programme and visitor information, so plan accordingly.

The Willy Brandt House on Königstraße tells the story of the Nobel Peace Prize winner's political life through a multimedia permanent exhibition. Admission to the exhibition is free, while guided tours and school visits are separately organised and priced by the Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation.

The Kunsthalle Bremen is an art museum run by the Kunstverein in Bremen, with a permanent collection display and a changing exhibition programme. This guide covers the museum's published 2026 exhibition dates, the ticket categories listed for it, the weekly opening pattern and a suggested time allowance.

The Roman-Germanic Museum in Cologne is built around a mosaic that was never moved. This guide explains its setting on Roncalliplatz beside the cathedral, what the stone monuments reveal about Roman Cologne, the wider monuments the museum protects, and which details to confirm on the official site before travelling.