The museums, art galleries and similar organisations are arranged in alphabetical order of their location.
The museum (Heimatmuseum) shows the (cultural) history of the city and the region. The museum shows the (cultural) history of the city and its surroundings. With the introduction of a decentralised museum concept, the museum can use two floors primarily for special exhibitions, while three historical themes have been relocated to their original context: agricultural … Read more » “Municipal Museum am Lindenplatz”
The museum and the Vitra Campus are among the world’s leading design museums. It is dedicated to the research and presentation of design and examines design’s relationship to architecture, art and everyday culture. In the building, the museum holds temporary exhibitions. The Vitra Schaudepot presents approximately 400 key objects from the extensive collection and resembles one … Read more » “Vitra Design Museum and Vitra Campus”
The museum presents archaeology in all its aspects, methodology and regional setting, including underwater archaeology in the Boden Lake (Bodensee) and a shipwreck from the fifteenth century. The collection covers this history from the stone-Age, Celts, Roman and Alamannic life and the Middle Ages.
The gallery (Galerie) mainly shows art from the Swiss region and south-west Germany, primarily from the 19th and 20th centuries. Drawings and paintings from other regions are exhibited as well, such as collection of 450 drawings, among others by Albrecht Dùrer, and paintings by Jan Steen and Gerard van Honthorst. Located in the Cultural Centre … Read more » “Wessenberg Gallery”