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If modern art is your passion, make sure you visit one of the major art fairs held in Cologne, Frankfurt/Main or Berlin. Alternatively, you can tour the art galleries of the major cities or larger towns. “Documenta” is the world's the largest exhibition of contemporary art. It is held in Kassel once every five years and lasts one hundred days.
Besides the vast, world-famous art collections, many other smaller museums also exist on specific themes, such as antique collections, museums of modern corporate history, monastery museums, collections of historical musical instruments, puppet museums, museums of technology, ethnological museums and zoological museums.
Every large German city organises a “long museum night” once a year. This wonderful and inexpensive cultural and social opportunity helps you to "get to know" the diversity of museums that can be found in your town. Shuttle buses transport visitors to and from the museums, all of which are open until late at night and feature special cultural programmes.
It's impossible to list all the museums, so here some examples for you.
The Deutsches Museum in Bonn is Germany’s most popular museum with around 1.3 million visitors per year. It is one of the leading international centres for research into our modern culture that is shaped by science and technology. The Deutsches Museum has more than 100,000 objects from fields of science and technology. Its extensive collection of valuable originals makes the Deutsches Museum one of the most important museums of science and technology anywhere in the world. Collections include objects from mining through to atomic physics, from the Altamira cave to a magnified model of a human cell. They extend from the Stone Age to the present time. About a quarter of the objects are on exhibition – in the main museum on the island in the river, at the transport museum on the Theresienhöhe, in the hangar at Schleißheim airfield, and in the Deutsches Museum Bonn. These illustrate important developments in science and technology, right down to current research.
The Germanic National Museum is one of Europe's largest and greatest museums. In the Germanic National Museum you can experience the former imperial city of Nuremberg, the remarkable range and diversity of German art and culture. Its incomparable collections of exceptional art and artisanship - from Neolithic hand axes to present-day art - provide a panoramic overview of the cultural history of German-speaking central Europe. Exhibits include the enigmatic 3000-year-old golden headdress of a Bronze Age priest or wise man, the gem-studded eagle fibula from the Age of Migration, or the pilgrim's cloak worn by Nuremberg patrician Stephan Praun. These artefacts will never lose their magical fascination. The golden armlet or "armilla" of Emperor Barbarossa and Martin Behaim's famous globe, the earliest surviving depiction of Earth as a sphere, or Carl Spitzweg's "Poor Poet" and Ernst Ludwig's expressionistic self-portrait as a drunkard are universally regarded as key works of their eras.
