Historical Museum Regensburg

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Entire complex of the historical museum
The Minorite Church, part of the Historical Museum (right)

The Historical Museum in Regensburg on Dachauplatz shows the history, art and culture of Regensburg and Eastern Bavaria from the Stone Age to the present day. Founded in 1931 but not opened by director Walter Boll until after the Second World War in 1949 , the museum is located in the former Minorite Monastery of St. Salvator .

On the ground floor there is an archaeological collection that uses finds to document the history of Regensburg and the Upper Palatinate in prehistory , Roman times and the early Middle Ages.

The museum houses the departments for city history and folklore on the first floor, including a model of Regensburg around 1700 on a scale of 1: 4000 from 1930 and other models and maps, paintings with views of the city and surroundings by Leo von Klenze and Josef Ostermayr , depictions of the History of the church, guilds, economy and living culture of the city, collections of furniture, costumes, votive tablets and reverse glass painting from the East Bavarian area.

The second floor shows medieval Christian art and tapestries as well as works by Albrecht Altdorfer and the Danube School as well as a collection of handicrafts from the region (including glass art, carving and ceramics).

Also worth seeing is the cloister with a late Gothic monastery fountain and two Gothic rooms in front of the church, which house important medieval sculptures.

Branch offices

  • Affiliated to the Historical Museum is a collection of modern art from Eastern Bavaria (focus on Willi Ulfig , Josef Achmann , Xaver Fuhr , Otto Baumann ), which is presented in the nearby former municipal storage building “ Empty Bag ”.
  • Kornweg 24 is the Roman pavilion with finds from the first half of the third century. The equipment of the plant with a well, a large basin, a kiln with a furnace pit and a cooking area contains everything "... what the ancient brewer needed in the first half of the third century."
  • Illustrations

  • Bronze Age bread loaf idol

  • Reconstruction of a Roman kitchen

  • Reconstruction of a Roman living space

  • Lion griffin

  • Skull of a woman beheaded in the 3rd century

  • Wooden stave jug (1683)

Inventory catalogs

  • Glasses. Antiquity, Middle Ages, Modern Times. Catalog of the Glass Collection, Brauser Collection (Treasures of Glass Art), ed. v. Museum of the City of Regensburg, Corona, Karlsruhe 1977
  • Hans Dachs: Far countries. Photo reports and fantasy images. Commentary on a collection of the museums of the city of Regensburg (Regensburg Studies and Sources on Cultural History, Vol. 11), Universitätsverlag, Regensburg 2001, ISBN 978-3-930480-53-1
  • Michael Wackerbauer: The musical instruments in the historical museum of the city of Regensburg. (Regensburg studies and sources on cultural history, vol. 18), Universitätsverlag, Regensburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86845-029-3
  • Luxury paper, colored paper and ephemera. The Helmut and Dr. Juliane Färber in the Historical Museum of the City of Regensburg , ed. v. Wolfgang Neiser (Regensburg Studies and Sources on Cultural History, Vol. 21), Universitätsverlag, Regensburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86845-120-7

Web links

Commons : Historisches Museum Regensburg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mittelbayerische Zeitung of February 15, 1949: Regensburger Museum and the history of its becoming.
  2. ↑ https://www.mittelbayerische.de/region/regensburg-stadt-nachrichten/das-schatzkaestchen-aus-der-roemerzeit-21179-art1122286.html

Coordinates: 49 ° 1 ′ 5 ″  N , 12 ° 6 ′ 7 ″  E