Regensburg Museum of History

The Historical Museum in Regensburg on Dachauplatz shows history, art and culture of Regensburg, Eastern Bavaria and from the Stone Age to the present. The museum, founded in 1931 is located in the former Minoritenkloster St. Salvator.

The ground floor has an archaeological collection, which documents the development of urban space in Prehistory, Roman and Early Middle Ages based on finds.

The museum houses the first floor of the departments of the city's history and folklore, including a model of Regensburg in 1700 at a scale of 1:4000 of 1930 and more models and maps, paintings with views of the city and surroundings of Leo von Klenze and Josef Ostermayr, representation of history of the church, guilds, business and living culture of the city, collections of furniture, costumes, votive tablets and glass painting from the Eastern Bavaria.

The second floor displays medieval Christian art and tapestries and works of Albrecht Altdorfer and the Danube school, as well as a collection of arts and crafts from the region (including glass art -carving and ceramics).

Also worth seeing is the cloister with its late Gothic cloister fountain and two of the church offshore Gothic rooms which host important medieval sculptures.

Affiliated to the Historical Museum is a collection of modern art from Eastern Bavaria (focus Willi Ulfig, Josef Achmann, Xaver Fuhr, Otto Baumann ), which will be presented at the nearby former municipal storage building " Empty bags ".