museums & galleries

art association
Founded in 1869, the Heidelberger Kunstverein is one of the largest and oldest art organizations in Germany. One of the main focuses of the organization is to support contemporary art, and this is ...

bonsai museum
The Bonsai Museum opened in 1985 as the first museum of its kind. It currently displays around 100 trees from all over the world. In addition to the exhibits inside, there is also a public garden and ...

cajeth house museum
“Primitive art in the 20th century”. That is what can be found in the Cajeth House Museum. This unique collection of artwork is comprised of paintings that won’t be found in the National ...

carl bosch museum
Professor, technician, chemist, director of BASF and IG Farben, and Nobel Prize winner (1931). This was Carl Bosch. On the grounds of his villa, in the building that once served as lodging for his ...

sinti and roma center
The Sinti and Roma peoples, (commonly but incorrectly referred to as Gypsies), are two of the many minorities that live in Europe. The cultural center in Heidelberg attempts to document their ...

ethnographical museum
Founded in 1919, the Ethnographical Museum has both permanent and rotating collections comprised of arts and ethnographical objects from Asia, Africa, and the Pacific. The permanent collection, which ...

friedrich ebert memorial
Friedrich Ebert was the son of a tailor who, in 1920, became the first democratically elected president of Germany. His memorial, which is located in the house where he grew up, documents not only ...

packaging museum
Ever wonder what the original UHU glue packaging looked like? Curious as to how Pelican ink acquired its name? Well, wonder no more. The German Museum of Packaging has the answer to these questions, ...

museum of ancient art
The Museum of Ancient Art, part of the University of Heidelberg, is the largest archaeological collection in a German University. The collection contains two areas – the antique museum and the ...

museum of ecclesiastical arts
This unique museum is located inside the Church of the Jesuits. A collection of ecclesiastical art from the 17th -19th centuries, it contains sculptures, liturgical garments, paintings, monstrances, ...

museum of the palatinate
The main focus of the Museum of the Palatinate, located in the Morass Palace, is the history of the Palatinate region and the city of Heidelberg. The collections in the museum, however, are not just ...

the prinzhorn collection
While working in Heidelberg at the psychiatric hospital, Hans Prinzhorn grew the existing collection of patients’ artwork. By the time he published his book in 1922, “The Artistry of the Mentally ...