Stage set for Bayreuths museums

The Richard Wagner Museum

The Richard Wagner Museum, in the house “Wahnfried", former residence of the Wagner family, was restored in 2015 and expanded with a modern addition.

Margravial Opera House

The Margravial Opera House Bayreuth, a world heritage site since 2012, is one of the most beautiful baroque theaters of the world.

New Palace and Park

Visiting the New Palace from the 18th century, also known because of its adjacent romantic park, visitors can experience the Margravial culture.

The palace Fantaisie built in 1761 to 1763 is the first horticulture museum. Exhibitions, display items, presentations and short films, show the history of horticulture vividly. Worth seeing is also the true to the original copy of the famous inlay cabinet of the...

Schloss Colmdorf (c) Mikhail Butovskiy

Colmdorf Palace

Discover Colmdorf Palace on Königsallee, which was once a Margrave's country estate and is now privately owned.

(c) Maisel & Friends

Maisel’s Beer Experience World

Whether you're a beer lover, hobby brewer or museum fan - the Maisel & Friends experiences & events have something for everyone.

Primeval World Museum

Information about the earth history of Upper Franconia, in particular about the history of life (Paleontology), and rock foundation (Geology), as well as minerals (Mineralogy).

The Jean Paul Museum

The Jean Paul Museum was, for the 250th birthday of the great upper Franconian poet, completely new designed and in time for this anniversary (21.03.2013) reopened.

Franz Liszt Museum

When Franz Liszt visited the Bayreuth Opera Festival in July 1886, he was already very ill. He lived in the house of the forest ranger, right next to the Villa Wahnfried in which his daughter Cosima Wagner lived with her children. During the night from July 31st to...

Museum of Art Bayreuth

The Bayreuth Art Museum was initiated by the Dr. Helmut and Constanze Meyer Art Foundation and opened in 1999 in the renovated Old Baroque Town Hall in the heart of the historic city center.

Historical Museum

The foundation of the museum goes back to an initiative of history conscious citizens who, at the end of the 19th century rightly feared, that more and more historical documents would be destroyed and scattered. Until around 1930 most objects came as gifts into the...

German Freemason Museum

History and nature of the freemasonry. Largest freemason library in German speaking countries and Freemason research center.

Wilhelm-Leuschner Memorial

In the year 2003 the city set up a memorial of Wilhelm Leuschner in the district of Mörtzhöfen and the house he was born in, which shows in three rooms the different stations of his life. The house is privately owned.

Steingraeber-Palais

The piano manufacturer Steingraeber

Alongside the Margravial Opera House, as well as Richard Wagner and his Festival Theatre, the Steingraeber piano manufactory is an important part of Bayreuth's musical culture.

The German Typewriter Museum

The start of a collection of historic typewriters goes back to the year 1936, when the former “German Institute for short hand and typing” in Bayreuth began the training of teachers for the corresponding subject.