It s not the Louvre or the Prado, but as far as small town history museums go, it s excellent. It s quite obvious that such an advantageous location like Passau would have plenty of history to display. Housed there are artifacts from the Roman and medieval periods. In addition, there is much church history housed in the museum. Passau has historically been the seat of a diocese.
Art is abundant as well.
Gothic and Baroque works from Passau are on display as well as an excellent collection of sculptures by Hans Wimmer. Quite surprisingly, some of the most interesting exhibits in the museum involve white gold . It seems that Passau s intersecting rivers made it a center of the once profitable salt trade. In fact, you could say that salt made the town. The quality of the museum s content was equaled by its design.