city Museum
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Sign at the entrance to the Gütersloh City Museum
A city museum (or city museum ) is usually a museum run by a local authority or a volunteer, which mostly fulfills the function of a local history museum , i.e. shows local history , but can also accommodate art collections or other collections.
List of city museums (selection)
Belgium
- Eupen: Eupen City Museum
Germany
- Bad Schwartau: Museum of the City of Bad Schwartau
- Baden-Baden: Baden-Baden City Museum
- Benningen: Museum in the Adler
- Bergkamen: Bergkamen City Museum
- Berlin: Foundation City Museum Berlin
- Bocholt: City Museum Bocholt
- Braunschweig: Municipal Museum (Braunschweig)
- Bretten: City Museum in the Swiss Court
- Brilon: Brilon City Museum
- Ditzingen: Ditzingen City Museum
- Dresden: Dresden City Museum
- Düren: Düren City Museum
- Düsseldorf: City Museum State Capital Düsseldorf
- Erfurt: City Museum Erfurt
- Erlangen: City Museum Erlangen
- Esslingen: Esslingen City Museum
- Euskirchen: Euskirchen City Museum
- Freudenberg: Freudenberg City Museum
- Fürth: City Museum Fürth Ludwig Erhard
- Gera: Gera City Museum
- Göttingen: Göttingen Municipal Museum
- Güstrow: City Museum Güstrow
- Gütersloh: Gütersloh City Museum
- Halle (Saale): City Museum Halle
- Hamburg: Museum of Hamburg History
- Halver: Halver local history museum
- Hattingen: Hattingen City Museum
- Hofheim am Taunus: City Museum Hofheim am Taunus
- Ibbenbüren: Ibbenbüren City Museum
- Ingolstadt: Ingolstadt City Museum
- Iserlohn: Iserlohn City Museum
- Jena: Jena City Museum
- Karlsruhe: City Museum Karlsruhe
- Kassel: City Museum Kassel
- Cologne: Cologne City Museum
- Kröpelin: City Museum Kröpelin
- Kusel: City and local museum
- Leipzig: City History Museum Leipzig
- Lennestadt: Lennestadt City Museum
- Ludwigsburg: Ludwigsburg Museum
- Ludwigshafen: City Museum Ludwigshafen
- Lutherstadt Wittenberg: Museum of the municipal collections in the armory
- Meißen: Meißen City Museum
- Memmingen: City Museum in the Hermansbau
- Miltenberg: Museum City of Miltenberg
- Munich: Munich City Museum
- Münster: Münster City Museum
- Neustadt in Holstein: Museum of the City of Neustadt in Holstein
- Neustadt an der Waldnaab: City Museum Neustadt an der Waldnaab
- Nördlingen: City Museum Nördlingen
- Nuremberg: City Museum Fembohaus
- Oldenburg OK: Oldenburg City Museum
- Paderborn: Adam and Eve House
- Reutlingen: Reutlingen Local History Museum
- Rüsselsheim: Rüsselsheim City and Industry Museum
- Schleswig: Schleswig City Museum
- Schongau: Schongau City Museum
- Seesen: Municipal Museum Seesen
- Siegburg: Siegburg City Museum
- Stuttgart: Stuttgart City Museum
- Trier: City Museum Simeonstift Trier
- Tübingen: City Museum Tübingen
- Wadern: City Museum Wadern
- Waiblingen: House of City History
- Weimar: Weimar City Museum in the Bertuchhaus
- Werdohl: Werdohl City Museum
- Zella-Mehlis: Zella-Mehlis City Museum
Italy
- Bolzano: Bolzano City Museum
- Merano: Palais Mamming Museum
Austria
- Bludenz: City Museum Bludenz
- Dornbirn: City Museum Dornbirn
- Graz: GrazMuseum
- Kirchschlag City Museum
- Melk: Melk City Museum
- Traiskirchen: City Museum Traiskirchen
- Vils: Museum of the City of Vils
- Wels: City Museum Wels
- Vienna: Vienna Museum
- Vienna: Wiener Stadtmuseum (unrealized project)
Sweden
- Borgholm City Museum Borgholm
- Hjo: Hjo City Museum
- Stockholm: Stockholm's City Museum
Switzerland
- Rapperswil SG: Rapperswil-Jona City Museum
- Winterthur: Lindengut Museum
Slovakia
- Bratislava: Museum of the City of Bratislava
Slovenia
- Ljubljana: Ljubljana City Museum
Czech Republic
- Aš: Aš City Museum
- Břeclav: Břeclav City Museum and Gallery
literature
- Matthias Henkel , Friedrich Scheele, Markus Walz: Locality as a topic: local, city, regional museums. In: Markus Walz (Ed.): Museum manual. History, tasks, perspectives. Springer, Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-476-02375-9 , pp. 107-113.
- Astrid Pellengahr (ed.): The mirror of urban culture. City museums face new challenges. State Office for the Non-State Museums in Bavaria, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-9818259-1-6 .