Museums and culture

  • Fondation Beyeler, Riehen

    Fondation Beyeler, Riehen

    Art museum by Renzo Piano in the Berower Park in Riehen near Basel – with around 400 works of classical modernism and contemporary art…

  • Marienfelde Refugee Transit Camp Memorial

    Marienfelde Refugee Transit Camp Memorial

    For decades, refugees from East Germany arrived here in West Berlin – today a memorial with the exhibition “Escape in Divided Germany”.

  • Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum

    Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum

    Art museum in Braunschweig, opened in 1754 as one of the first public museums in Germany – with works by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Rubens and…

  • Spanish House of Bouvignes

    Spanish House of Bouvignes

    Renaissance house of 1568–1578 in Bouvignes-sur-Meuse, built after the destruction of 1554 – today a museum of the medieval heritage of the Meuse region.

  • Würzburg Residence

    Würzburg Residence

    Baroque palace of the prince-bishops of Würzburg by Balthasar Neumann – with Tiepolo’s huge ceiling fresco above the staircase, a UNESCO World Heritage Site…

  • Festspielhaus Neuschwanstein

    Festspielhaus Neuschwanstein

    Musical theatre on the shore of the Forggensee in Füssen, opened in 2000 – its terrace looks across the lake to Neuschwanstein Castle, about…