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Maximilianmuseum — Full Maximilianmuseum façade with pink banners on a sunny day

Maximilianmuseum

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Maximilianmuseum is an art and cultural-history museum in Augsburg, known for its Renaissance bronzes and historic model collection.

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Maximilianmuseum — Maximilianmuseum façade and neighboring buildings along Fuggerplatz

Maximilianmuseum — Maximilianmuseum façade and neighboring buildings along FuggerplatzMaximilianmuseum — Museum façade viewed across the square with visitorsMaximilianmuseum — Maximilianmuseum’s ornate façade seen from an angled street viewMaximilianmuseum — Museum exterior and pink banners viewed from across the plazaMaximilianmuseum — Museum courtyard seen from above beneath its glass roofMaximilianmuseum — Museum courtyard with galleries and a statue below the glass roofMaximilianmuseum — Armored statue displayed in the museum courtyardMaximilianmuseum — Sculptures from the museum collection displayed in a galleryMaximilianmuseum — Museum gallery with historic objects beneath a painted ceilingMaximilianmuseum — Gold Augsburg coin from the museum collection

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Why go

  • Renaissance bronze fountain sculptures linked to a UNESCO World Heritage site.
  • Augsburg art from a city that led German sculpture, painting, and gold and silver work from the late Middle Ages into the modern period.
  • The Lapidarium’s more than 300 stone objects from Augsburg’s urban history.

Don't miss

  • Augustus, Mercury and HerculesMade around 1600 by Hubert Gerhard and Adriaen de Vries, these figures celebrate Augsburg’s Roman origins and free imperial status.Viermetzhof
  • Aeneas GalleryMelchior Steidl’s ceiling fresco depicts Virgil’s Aeneid; the gallery also has Baroque bozzetti once owned by Sigmund Rohrer.Aeneas Gallery
  • Augsburg in miniatureModels preserve planned, built and demolished municipal buildings alongside models of the city’s water supply.Model chamber
  • Stone witnesses to the cityMore than 300 objects range from architectural fragments and inscription plaques to boundary stones and funerary monuments, spanning the Middle Ages to the end of the imperial-city period.Basement Lapidarium
  • Goldsmith work in the FelicitassaalAugsburg goldsmith works are displayed in a hall with a ceiling fresco by Melchior Steidl.Felicitassaal

What's inside

  • Three floors present sculpture, goldsmithing, architectural models, city history and temporary exhibitions.

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  1. Patron Kurt F. Viermetz donated the Viermetzhof’s self-supporting glass roof.

    Maximilianmuseum | Art collections & museums Augsburg

  2. Augsburg’s sundial makers were also called compass makers because their instruments included compasses.

    Maximilianmuseum | Art collections & museums Augsburg

  3. The coin cabinet is the largest public collection of coins from the former imperial city of Augsburg.

    Maximilianmuseum - Wikipedia
  4. 1805

    Augsburg’s last coin was a copper pfennig minted in 1805.

    Maximilianmuseum | Art collections & museums Augsburg

  5. Moving the historic model collection out of its town-hall home saved it from Allied bombing during the Second World War.

    Maximilian-Museum - Wikipedia

History

The museum once also housed a major natural-history collection. This left in 1905 and opened as a separate museum the following year. The Augsburg diocese’s art-history collection joined in 1910, while remaining diocesan property; most of those holdings returned to Diözesanmuseum St. Afra in 2000. The museum’s art collections took shape in 1932, when Sigmund Rohrer’s collection was combined with existing holdings.

  1. 1544–1546Imperial councillor Leonhard Beck von Beckenstein built a patrician house that now forms part of the museum.
  2. 1706–1853The museum complex housed a Protestant charitable institution before the city acquired it.
  3. 1853The city bought the building that would house its first municipal museum.
  4. 1856The museum took the name of its patron, King Maximilian II, following his visit.
  5. 1991A wing of the neighboring Welserhaus joined the museum.
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  1. 2000Original fountain sculptures moved indoors to protect them from pollution and other environmental damage, with replicas taking their places in the city.
  2. 2006The renovated museum reopened with redesigned permanent displays.
  3. 2007The museum received the Bavarian Museum Prize.

Sources: Maximilianmuseum - Wikipedia · Augsburg - Wikivoyage (see) · Maximilianmuseum | Art collections & museums Au… · Maximilianmuseum - Wikipedia · Maximilian-Museum - Wikipedia · checked 4 Oct 2026

Where
Fuggerplatz 1, Augsburg

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Questions and answers

Where is the entrance to Maximilianmuseum?

The entrance and reception are on Fuggerplatz, at Fuggerplatz 1, in the Philippine-Welser-Straße pedestrian zone.

How are Maximilianmuseum’s displays arranged?

The museum spans three floors. Themed permanent displays cover sculpture, goldsmithing, architectural models and city history, alongside temporary exhibitions.

What scientific heritage does Maximilianmuseum cover?

Its scientific instruments reflect Augsburg’s instrument-making tradition, which flourished from the Renaissance, especially in mathematical, physical and astronomical instruments.

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