# List of museums in Baden-Württemberg

This is a list of museums in the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries.
| Name | Location | Area of Focus | Summary |
| Afrika-Haus Freiberg | Freiberg am Neckar | Art | African art |
| Augustiner Museum | Freiburg im Breisgau | Art | Includes works from the Middle Ages up to the Baroque period, as well as paintings from the 19th century |
| Automuseum Dr. Carl Benz | Ladenburg | Automotive | |
| Baden State Museum | Karlsruhe | Multiple | website, cultural, art and regional history of the state of Baden-Württemberg |
| Bebenhausen Monastery and Palace | Tübingen | Historic house | Medieval monastery with church, 19th-century palace |
| Black Forest Costume Museum | Haslach im Kinzigtal | Fashion | Traditional clothing and costume of the Black Forest region |
| Black Forest Open Air Museum | Gutach | Open-air | Includes six fully furnished farmhouses |
| Braith-Mali-Museum | Biberach an der Riss | Local | Local history, archaeology, art and natural history |
| Brenz Castle | Sontheim | Local | Features a community museum of area geology, paleontology and local history |
| Bruchsal Palace | Bruchsal | Historic house | website, tours of the reconstructed Baroque palace interiors, houses the German Museum of Mechanical Musical Instruments and the Bruchsal Town Museum |
| Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe | Karlsruhe | Art | Features the Media Museum for new media art and the Museum of Contemporary Art |
| Colombischlössle Archeological Museum | Freiburg im Breisgau | Archaeology | Human development of the High and upper Rhine from the Paleolithic Age to the Early Middle Ages |
| DBK Historic Railway | Crailsheim | Railway | Heritage railway |
| Deutsches Zweirad- und NSU-Museum | Neckarsulm | Transport | Motorcycles and bicycles |
| Documentation and Cultural Centre of German Sinti and Roma | Heidelberg | History | History of the genocide perpetrated upon the Sinti and Roma by the Nazis |
| Dorf- und Uhrenmuseum Gütenbach | Gütenbach | Horology | Local history of clockmaking, focusing on the history of making wooden clock movements |
| Dornier Museum Friedrichshafen | Friedrichshafen | Aerospace | Aircraft designs of Claude Dornier, the Dornier company and aerospace products of Airbus |
| Erinnerungsstätte für die Freiheitsbewegungen in der deutschen Geschichte | Rastatt | History | Museum and memorial to free democratic traditions in Germany, located in Schloss Rastatt |
| Fabergé Museum | Baden-Baden | Decorative arts | Items made by the Russian jewellery firm Fabergé |
| German Clock Museum | Furtwangen im Schwarzwald | Horology | History of timekeeping, collection of clocks and watches from the Black Forest area and around the world |
| German Museum of Mechanical Musical Instruments | Bruchsal | Music | website, branch museum of the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, features 18th and 19th-century self-playing musical instruments in clocks, cabinets, music boxes, orchestrion, organs and mechanical figures |
| German Phono Museum | Sankt Georgen im Schwarzwald | Music | History of the music communications industry from phonographs up to the CD |
| Glockenmuseum Stiftskirche Herrenberg | Herrenberg | Music | Church tower with over 30 bells from 12 centuries and many different regions, the church's own bells |
| Gochsheim Castle | Kraichtal | Local | Exhibits on local history, many work of local artist Karl Hubbuch, and world's largest collection of irons |
| Grafeneck Euthanasia Centre | Grafeneck | History | Memorial site dedicated to the victims of the state-authorised euthanasia programme referred to as Action T4 |
| Haus der Geschichte Baden-Württemberg | Karlsruhe | History | website, history of southwest Germany from 1790 to the present |
| Hegel House | Stuttgart | Biographical | Life and work of philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
| Heidelberg Castle | Heidelberg | Historic house | Tours of the castle remains and a pharmacy museum |
| Hellenstein Castle | Heidenheim an der Brenz | Multiple | Partly ruined castle, includes the Museum of Coaches, Carriages and Carts, and the Hellenstein Castle Museum with local history, toys, religious artifacts and neolithic tools |
| Hirsau Cloister Museum | Hirsau | Religious | website; museum of the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, history and artifacts of the former Hirsau Abbey |
| Hohenzollern Castle | Bisingen | Historic house | 19th-century castle on a bluff, ancestral seat of the Hohenzollern dynasty which produced Prussian Kings and German Emperors |
| IG 3-Seenbahn | Seebrugg | Railway | Heritage railway with locomotives and wagons typical of the area between 1945 and 1960 |
| Jewish Museum, Emmendingen | Emmendingen | Jewish | Culture and history of the Jewish community in Emmendingen between 1716 and 1940 |
| John Rabe Communication Centre | Heidelberg | Biographical | Life of businessman John Rabe who tried to stop the atrocities of the Japanese army during the Nanking Massacre and worked to protect Chinese civilians |
| Jünger-Haus Wilflingen | Langenenslingen | Biographical | Last home of German writer Ernst Jünger |
| Karlsruhe Palace | Karlsruhe | Multiple | Houses the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe |
| Katzenstein Castle | Dischingen | Historic house | 17th-century castle |
| Kepler Museum | Weil der Stadt | Biographical | website, birthplace home of astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler |
| Kunsthalle Mannheim | Mannheim | Art | Modern and contemporary art |
| Kunsthalle Tübingen | Tübingen | Art | Modern and contemporary art |
| Kunstmuseum Stuttgart | Stuttgart | Art | Modern and contemporary art |
| Kurpfälzisches Museum | Heidelberg | Multiple | Art, decorative arts, archaeology and costumes |
| Landesmuseum Württemberg | Stuttgart | Multiple | Old Castle houses archaeological artifacts, Württemberg crown jewels, medieval art, antique and modern glass, clocks and scientific instruments, a museum for children, musical instruments |
| Langenstein Castle | Orsingen-Nenzingen | Amusement | Features the Carnival Museum (Fasnachtmuseum) with masks, costumes, terracotta figures |
| Lichtenstein Castle | Lichtenstein | Historic house | Gothic Revival 19th-century castle, features collection of historic weapons and armour |
| Linden Museum | Stuttgart | Ethnography | Exhibits from cultures around the world including South and Southeast Asia, Africa, the Islamic world form the Near East to Pakistan, China and Japan, and artifacts from North and Latin America and Oceania |
| Ludwigsburg Palace | Ludwigsburg | Multiple | Baroque palace to tour, features 3 museums: Baroque Gallery presents the State Gallery's collection of Baroque paintings; Porcelain Museum; Baroque Fashion Museum presents clothes from 1750 to 1820 |
| Mannheim Palace | Mannheim | Historic house | The main floor rooms of the 18th-century Baroque palace have been restored and furnished with period items including tapestries, ornate furniture, paintings, porcelain and silverware. |
| Maulbronn Monastery | Maulbronn | Religious | Medieval Cistercian monastery complex |
| Meersburg Castle | Meersburg | Historic house | Medieval castle, features over 30 furnished rooms and an armoury |
| Melanchthonhaus | Bretten | Religious | History of the Protestant Reformation and life of Philipp Melanchthon |
| Mercedes-Benz Museum | Stuttgart | Automotive | Mercedes-Benz cars and other vehicles, history of the company |
| Meßkirch Castle | Meßkirch | Multiple | Castle tours and cultural center with a county art gallery, a museum about philosopher Martin Heidegger, and the Oldtimer Museum with old automobiles and motorcycles, |
| Museum Art.Plus | Donaueschingen | Art | Contemporary art |
| Museum at Market Square | Karlsruhe | Decorative arts | website, decorative and applied art objects and furniture including Art Nouveau, Art Deco, 20th-century fashion, modern and contemporary furniture; museum of the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe |
| Museum at the Market | Schiltach | Local | website, local history |
| Museum Autovision | Altlußheim | Automotive | Includes cars, motorcycles, bicycles (most of which were built by NSU Motorenwerke AG) and alternative propulsion |
| Museum der Alltagskultur | Waldenbuch | Culture | Everyday cultural objects including furniture, household items, personal items, beliefs, folk and pop culture |
| Museum in the Majolica | Karlsruhe | Ceramics | website, history and artifacts of the Majolica Porcelain Manufactory; museum of the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe |
| Museum of Clockmaking | Villingen-Schwenningen | Horology | History of the clockmaking industry in the town |
| Museum of Modern Literature | Marbach am Neckar | Literature | Focus is 20th-century literature |
| Museum of Upper Rhine Literature | Karlsruhe | Literature | website, includes handwriting, first editions, letters, photography and audio artefacts |
| Neue Staatsgalerie | Stuttgart | Art | 20th-century modern art |
| Neues Schloss | Meersburg | Historic house | 18th-century Baroque palace, features a collection of shells, snails, minerals and fossils |
| Pharmacy Museum | Schiltach | Medical | website, 19th-century pharmacy used until the 1980s |
| Porsche Museum, Stuttgart | Stuttgart | Automotive | Porsche vehicles and history of the company |
| President Friedrich Ebert Memorial | Heidelberg | Biographical | Life and of Friedrich Ebert |
| Railway Vehicle Preservation Company | Stuttgart | Railway | |
| Reiss Engelhorn Museum | Mannheim | Multiple | Exhibitions in four museum locations, includes art and cultural history, theater and literature, antiquities, international photography, life of poet and playwright Friedrich Schiller, archaeology, Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, non-European cultures, and natural history |
| Salem Monastery and Palace | Salem | Historic house | Baroque-period imperial abbey and church |
| Schloss Favorite (Rastatt) | Rastatt | Historic house | 18th-century Baroque summer residence and hunting palace, features Asian and European porcelain, glass and faience collection |
| Schloss Kirchheim | Kirchheim unter Teck | Historic house | Renaissance fortress palace with 19th-century furnishings |
| Schloss Rastatt | Rastatt | Historic house | 18th-century Baroque palace, tours include admission to the Military Museum |
| Schüttesäge Museum | Schiltach | Local | Themes of forestry, tanning and timber rafting in the area |
| Schwarzwaldmuseum Triberg | Triberg im Schwarzwald | Local | website, local history, culture, clockmaking, clothing, mechanical orchestras and typical crafts |
| Schwetzingen Palace | Schwetzingen | Historic house | 18th-century palace and gardens |
| Sigmaringen Castle | Sigmaringen | Historic house | Includes collections of pre- and ancient historical objects, works from Swabian artists, carvers and metalworkers, Hall of Weapons with one of the largest private weapon collections in Europe, and the Marstallmuseum with the princely fleet of carriages |
| Sinsheim Auto & Technik Museum | Sinsheim | Transport | Includes aircraft, automobiles, motorcycles, locomotives, tractors, steam engines and trucks, tanks and military equipment |
| South German Railway Museum | Heilbronn | Railway | Includes steam, diesel and electric locomotives, a locomotive roundhouse with a working turntable, and large wagon shed |
| Staatsgalerie Stuttgart | Stuttgart | Art | Includes Old German paintings 1300-1550, Italian paintings 1300-1800, Dutch paintings 1500-1700, German paintings of the baroque period, art from 1800 to 1900 |
| Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe | Karlsruhe | Art | |
| Stadtmuseum Schramberg | Schramberg | Local | website, local history, castles, stoneware, straw braiding and watches |
| State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe | Karlsruhe | Natural history | Includes animal dioramas, geology on the Upper Rhine, minerals, dinosaurs and fossils, climate, insects, African habitat dioramas, native flora and fauna |
| State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart | Stuttgart | Natural history | Two buildings: Museum am Löwentor with fossils excavated in south-west Germany, dinosaur models, insects in amber; Schloss Rosenstein about animals, habitats, ecosystems and evolution |
| Staufen Ceramics Museum | Staufen im Breisgau | Ceramics | website; museum of the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe |
| Technoseum | Mannheim | Technology | Technology and industry including technical, social and political changes since the 18th century |
| Tettnang Castle | Tettnang | Historic house | 18th-century Baroque castle |
| Transylvanian Museum | Gundelsheim | Ethnic | Cultural heritage of the Transylvanian Saxons |
| Ulm Railway Society | Ulm | Railway | Four heritage railways |
| Urach Residential Palace | Bad Urach | Historic house | website, 15th-century Renaissance palace |
| Urmensch Museum | Steinheim an der Murr | Archaeology | website, physical and mental development of prehistoric man with an emphasis on the Steinheim skull |
| Viniculture Museum | Stuttgart | Wine | website, area wine-making industry |
| Vitra Design Museum | Weil am Rhein | Design | Modern furniture and design |
| Waldburg Castle | Waldburg | Historic house | Medieval castle |
| Water-Bath-Design Museum | Schiltach | Technology | website, history of Hansgrohe and its influence on bathroom technology and design |
| Wehrgeschichtliches Museum Rastatt | Rastatt | Military | Included with tours of Schloss Rastatt, relationship between state, society and the military, primarily in the southwest of Germany |
| Wiesloch Feldbahn and Industrial Museum | Wiesloch | Railway | Narrow-gauge railway and industrial heritage open-air museum |
| Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen | Friedrichshafen | Aerospace | History of the Zeppelin airships, combines technology and art |