Museums

The museum At the Wahnfried House presents the life, work and art of Richard Wagner. The The exhibition is also dedicated to the performance history of the Bayreuth Festival. On display is a collection of historical set design models, original costumes and technical stage equipment

The gallery (Staatsgalerie) in the New Castle (Neuen Schloss) is part of the State Collection of Paintings of Bayern. The gallery focuses on late Baroque and Dutch paintings from around 1700-1750. Another department of the Staatsgalerie shows archaeological finds from the pre-and early history to the Middle Ages. The museum „Das Bayreuth der Markgräfin Wilhelmine“ … Read more » “State Gallery Bayreuth”

The museum (Historisches Museum) shows the (cultural) history of Bayreuth.

The museum of art (Kunstmuseum ) Bayreuth exhibits the collection of the Dr. Helmut and Constanze Meyer Foundation (Stiftung), the Prof. Dr. Klaus Dettmann Foundation (Stiftung), the Voith von Voithenberg Foundation (Stiftung) and the Oberfrankenstiftung (the collections of Caspar Walter Rauh and Werner Froemel. The museum focuses on art of the twentieth century.  

The house (Iwalewahaus) is a center of African art and contributes to the dialogue in the globalised world.

The museum (Franz Liszthaus) is dedicated to this composer and musician.  

The museum is dedicated the the German poet Jean Paul (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter) 1763-1825.