Museums in Germany
733 museums in Germany. Most visited: Autostadt.
Top museums in Germany
Autostadt
Transport museum · 2,300,000 visitors a year
Autostadt is a car-focused visitor attraction in Wolfsburg, Germany, next to the Volkswagen plant. It attracts around 2 million visitors a year, and its main pavilion opened in May 2000. The site...
Leipzig Zoological Garden
Zoo or aquarium · 1,709,491 visitors a year
Few zoos let visitors drift by boat through a tropical forest under one roof, but Zoo Leipzig does in Gondwanaland, a vast glass-covered hall of plants and animals from Africa, Asia and South...
Tierpark Berlin
Zoo or aquarium · 1,470,254 visitors a year
Spread across roughly 160 hectares of former palace parkland in Friedrichsfelde, Tierpark Berlin is one of the largest zoos in Europe by area. It opened in 1955 as East Berlin's answer to the older...
Pergamon Museum
Art museum · 1,410,000 visitors a year
The Pergamon Museum is an archaeology museum on Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin, opened in 1930. Its collections include the Antikensammlung with the Pergamon Altar, the...
Dresden Zoo
Zoo or aquarium · 1,200,000 visitors a year
Founded in 1861, Dresden Zoo (Zoo Dresden) is among the oldest zoos in Germany, and it still occupies its original site on the southern edge of the Großer Garten, the city's large baroque park. Its...
Bavarian State Painting Collections
Art museum · 1,143,614 visitors a year
The Bavarian State Painting Collections brings together one of Europe's great assemblies of art, spread across Munich's celebrated Pinakothek museums. Here, painting is not presented as a distant...
Neues Museum
1,142,000 visitors a year
Discover the wonders of the Neues Museum, a gem nestled in the heart of Berlin, Germany. This architectural masterpiece, originally completed in 1855 and lovingly restored, invites visitors to step...
Altes Museum
Art museum · 1,080,000 visitors a year
Welcome to the Altes Museum, a crown jewel of Berlin’s Museum Island and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This architectural masterpiece, designed by the renowned Karl Friedrich Schinkel, invites...
Mercedes-Benz Museum
Transport museum · 876,109 visitors a year
Nestled in Stuttgart, Germany, the Mercedes-Benz Museum is a captivating destination that celebrates over a century of automotive innovation and excellence. As you step through its striking...
Wall Museum
Military museum · 870,000 visitors a year
Founded in 1962, a year after the Berlin Wall went up, the Wall Museum has documented escapes from East Berlin from a building beside Checkpoint Charlie, the best-known crossing point between East...
Museum Folkwang
Art museum · 800,000 visitors a year
When Karl Ernst Osthaus founded Museum Folkwang in Hagen in 1902, it was one of the first museums anywhere devoted to the art of its own time. Essen acquired his collection after his death and...
Deutsches Historisches Museum
History museum · 758,300 visitors a year
Berlin's national museum of German history occupies the Zeughaus, the baroque former Prussian arsenal on Unter den Linden and the oldest building on the boulevard. Visitors see its name, Deutsches...
Senckenberg Museum
Natural history museum · 620,000 visitors a year
Dinosaurs dominate the Senckenberg Museum, home to one of Europe's best-known dinosaur displays. Among them is a rare Edmontosaurus "mummy," a fossil that preserves impressions of the animal's skin,...
Museum Barberini
Art museum · 520,000 visitors a year
Few places outside Paris hold as many Impressionist landscapes as Museum Barberini in Potsdam. The core of its permanent display is the collection of founder Hasso Plattner, with a large group of...
Alte Nationalgalerie
Art museum · 454,000 visitors a year
Discover the Alte Nationalgalerie, a gem nestled in the heart of Berlin, where art and history come alive. This remarkable museum, housed in a stunning neo-classical building on Museum Island,...
Germany Spy Museum
416,692 visitors a year
The German Spy Museum (Deutsches Spionagemuseum) stands on Leipziger Platz, on ground that was once part of the Berlin Wall's border strip, in a city often called the capital of Cold War espionage....
Bode Museum
Art museum · 390,000 visitors a year
Rising straight out of the Spree at the northern tip of Museum Island, the Bode Museum's domed neo-Baroque building is one of Berlin's most recognisable landmarks. Designed by Ernst von Ihne, it...
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
Art museum · 330,000 visitors a year
A glass cube on Stuttgart's Schlossplatz houses the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. Its transparent outer shell wraps a stone inner core, and the cube glows at night. Designed by the Berlin architects Hascher...
DDR Museum
History museum · 308,874 visitors a year
Few museums let visitors sit behind the wheel of a Trabant, the boxy East German car, or rummage through the drawers and cupboards of a reconstructed apartment. The DDR Museum is built around this...
Alte Pinakothek
Art museum · 306,779 visitors a year
Nestled in the heart of Munich, the Alte Pinakothek stands as a testament to the grandeur of European art, inviting visitors to embark on a journey through centuries of creativity. Home to an...
Museums by city in Germany
- Berlin83 museums
- Munich40 museums
- Hamburg29 museums
- Dresden23 museums
- Frankfurt19 museums
- Leipzig16 museums
- Bonn15 museums
- Cologne15 museums
- Stuttgart11 museums
- Bremen10 museums
- Nuremberg10 museums
- Potsdam9 museums
- Lübeck8 museums
- Hanover7 museums
- Münster7 museums
- Düsseldorf6 museums
- Halle (Saale)6 museums
- Kassel6 museums
- Dortmund5 museums
- Heidelberg5 museums
- Karlsruhe5 museums
- Mannheim5 museums
Germany’s museum landscape stretches from Berlin’s Museum Island to regional collections in smaller university towns and former industrial centers. Visitors can move between archaeology at the Pergamon Museum and Neues Museum, painting in Munich’s Bavarian State Painting Collections, and design or engineering-focused sites in cities shaped by manufacturing. Mooseum helps make sense of this range, bringing together digital tours and indoor maps for places that can otherwise feel sprawling.
Different regions reveal different strands of German history and culture. Berlin is dense with art, antiquities, and twentieth-century history museums, while Dresden and Leipzig offer strong traditions in fine art, natural history, and zoological gardens. In Lower Saxony, Autostadt reflects the country’s automotive heritage, and across the Ruhr and other industrial areas, museums often explore labor, technology, and urban change. Mooseum is useful for planning across these varied themes and locations.
Museum visits in Germany often combine major national institutions with highly local collections devoted to crafts, transport, literature, or city history. Many museums are housed in reconstructed palaces, modern exhibition buildings, or repurposed industrial sites, which adds another layer to the visit. Whether you are comparing classical antiquity in Berlin or spending a family day at Tierpark Berlin or Dresden Zoo, Mooseum offers a practical way to explore each venue in context.
Germany Travel
German National Tourist Board (GNTB)
Official tourism portal and agency site.
Map of museums in Germany
Museums in Germany: questions
- How many museums are there in Germany?
- Mooseum lists 733 museums in Germany. Berlin has the most, with 83.
- Which cities in Germany have the most museums?
- Berlin (83), Munich (40), Hamburg (29), Dresden (23) and Frankfurt (19).
- What are the most visited museums in Germany?
- By annual visitors reported on Wikipedia: Autostadt (2,300,000), Leipzig Zoological Garden (1,709,491) and Tierpark Berlin (1,470,254).
- What kinds of museums are in Germany?
- Of the 533 whose type we know, the most common are art museums (160), historic houses, palaces and castles (70), transport museums (53) and zoos and aquariums (49).
- Berlin brings together major antiquities and archaeology collections, especially around Museum Island, with institutions such as the Pergamon Museum, Neues Museum, and Altes Museum.
- Bavaria is a strong region for painting and decorative arts, with Munich’s Bavarian State Painting Collections spanning Old Masters to later European works.
- Germany’s industrial and engineering heritage appears in automotive, transport, and technology museums, including Autostadt and many regional collections tied to local manufacturing.
- Zoos and natural history attractions are an important part of the wider museum landscape, with Leipzig Zoological Garden, Tierpark Berlin, and Dresden Zoo drawing families and wildlife enthusiasts.
- Many museums connect national history with regional identity, from Saxon court culture and East German history to local craft traditions, literature, and urban heritage.
- Check opening days carefully: many museums in Germany close on Mondays, while larger institutions in Berlin, Munich, and Dresden may have different seasonal or special exhibition hours.
- Book timed-entry tickets in advance for high-demand museums and major temporary exhibitions, especially in Berlin and during school holidays or long weekends.
- Use local public transport where possible. Museum districts in cities like Berlin, Munich, and Leipzig are usually well connected by U-Bahn, S-Bahn, tram, or regional rail.
- Look for combined passes and reduced admission. Many cities offer museum cards, and discounts are common for students, families, seniors, and holders of regional transport or tourism passes.
From the blog
- Best Free Museums in Europe — A 2026 City-by-City Guide
From the British Museum to the Musée d'Art Moderne, these are the best free museums across London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, and more. Plan your next European museum trip.
All museums in Germany
Every museum in Germany listed on Mooseum. Search by name or type.
| Name | Type | Website | Links | Stats |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Transport museum | polizeioldtimer.de |  | — | |
— | www.museum-huertgenwald.de | | — | |
Art museum | www.aachener-domschatz.de | | — | |
Religious museum | www.kloster-lorsch.de | | — | |
Art museum | www.museum-abteiberg.de | | — | |
Transport museum | aeronauticum.de | | — | |
— | www.afghanisches-museum.de | | — | |
Akademisches KunstmuseumMore than 2,700 plaster casts of ancient Greek and Roman statues and reliefs give the Akademisches Kunstmuseum (Academic Art Museum) one of the largest collections of its kind in the world. Alongside... | Art museum | www3.uni-bonn.de/die-universitaet/Museen/Antikensammlung.html | | — |
AlbertinumPaintings and sculpture from Romanticism to the present share one roof at the Albertinum, which houses two collections of the Dresden State Art Collections: the New Masters Gallery (Galerie Neue... | Art museum | albertinum.skd.museum | | — |
Albrecht Dürer's HouseFor the last two decades of his life, from 1509 until his death in 1528, Albrecht Dürer lived and worked in this house, known on signs as the Albrecht-Dürer-Haus. Built around 1420, it rises five... | Art museum | museen.nuernberg.de/duererhaus | | — |
Allied MuseumThe Allied Museum (AlliiertenMuseum) is devoted to the Western Allies, the United States, France and the United Kingdom, and their presence in Germany, above all in Berlin, from 1945 to 1994. It... | Military museum | www.alliiertenmuseum.de | | — |
Alte NationalgalerieDiscover the Alte Nationalgalerie, a gem nestled in the heart of Berlin, where art and history come alive. This remarkable museum, housed in a stunning neo-classical building on Museum Island,... | Art museum | www.smb.museum/museen-und-einrichtungen/alte-nationalgalerie/home.html | | — |
Alte PinakothekNestled in the heart of Munich, the Alte Pinakothek stands as a testament to the grandeur of European art, inviting visitors to embark on a journey through centuries of creativity. Home to an... | Art museum | www.pinakothek.de/en/visit/alte-pinakothek | | — |
Altes MuseumWelcome to the Altes Museum, a crown jewel of Berlin’s Museum Island and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This architectural masterpiece, designed by the renowned Karl Friedrich Schinkel, invites... | Art museum | www.smb.museum/museen-einrichtungen/altes-museum/home | | — |
Altonaer MuseumFounded as a museum association in 1863, when Altona was still part of Denmark, the Altonaer Museum holds more than 300,000 objects connected to the cultural history of Northern Germany. The museum... | — | shmh.de/de/altonaer-museum | | — |
Religious museum | www.kloster-altzella.de | | — | |
Art museum | www.angermuseum.de | | — | |
— | www.annefrank.de | | — | |
Antikensammlung BerlinThe Pergamon Altar is the main attraction of the Antikensammlung Berlin, one of the most important collections of classical art in the world. Alongside it are Greek and Roman architectural elements... | Art museum | www.smb.museum/museen-einrichtungen/antikensammlung | | — |
Archäologisches Museum Hamburg und Stadtmuseum HarburgAs the archaeological heritage authority for Hamburg and the neighbouring district of Harburg in Lower Saxony, the Hamburg Archaeological Museum (Archäologisches Museum Hamburg) supervises every... | Archaeology museum | www.amh.de | | — |
Architekturmuseum der Technischen Universität MünchenGermany's largest collection of architectural exhibits, by a wide margin, belongs to the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Munich (Architekturmuseum der Technischen Universität... | Art museum | www.architekturmuseum.de | | — |
ArithmeumBernhard Korte's private collection of calculating machines forms the core of the Arithmeum, a mathematics museum that Korte founded in 2008 while director of the University of Bonn's Research... | Science and technology museum | www.arithmeum.uni-bonn.de | | — |
Transport museum | www.bahnpark-augsburg.de | | — | |
Science and technology museum | www.timbayern.de | | — | |
Zoo or aquarium | www.zoo-augsburg.de | | — |