Museum fans of every taste will find something to love in the Historic Highlights of Germany.

Antiquity
Trier's Archaeological Museum (Landesmuseum) has the richest collection of Roman finds in Germany. Augsburg's Römische Museum features archaeological finds from the founding of the city at the time of Christ's birth, and from later centuries when the Roman ruled the land.

At the Museum Wiesbaden, the art collection and the exhibit focusing on the "Roman Era and the Early Middle Ages" have been extensively renovated.

From Medieval to Modern
Freiburg's Augustiner Museum collection includes precious treasures from the Middle Ages to the present day including works by paintings by Lucas Cranach, as well as original sculpture and stained-glass windows from the Cathedral, to mention but a few. The Museum am Dom (Museum by the Cathedral) of the Würzburg Diocese takes a different approach and displays works by contemporary, internationally acclaimed artists juxtaposed with masters of the Romanesque, Gothic and Baroque Periods. Important art treasures from more than 1000 years of history of the archbishopric of Mainz are to be seen in the Cathedral and Diocesan Museum

For those interested specifically in the Baroque period, the German Barock-Galerie in Augsburg contains works of German Old Masters, among them Hans Holbein the Elder, Lucas Cranach and Albrecht Dürer. 

The Central Rhine Museum in Koblenz exhibits paintings and sculptures from 12th to 20th centuries19th and 20th centuries Paintings of  the 19th and 20th centuries are found at the Staatsgalerie in der Kunsthalle in Augsburg, including modern masters like Max Beckmann and Paul Klee. Freiburg's Museum für Neue Kunst exhibits works of the 20th century by Arp, Baumeister, Dix, Heckel, Hofer, Macke and other protagonists of modern art.

In Münster, the Pablo Picasso Graphics Museum, the first Picasso Museum in Germany, offers a collection of over 780 lithographs. Münster is home to an exhibit of modern sculpture "Skulpt(o)ur" with outdoor installations throughout the city.

The Felix Nussbaum House in Osnabrück is named after the artist Felix Nussbaum, who was born in Osnabrück in 1904 and murdered in Auschwitz in 1944. The house bearing his name was built according to plans drawn up by Daniel Libeskind, and the creative tension between architecture and painting has given rise to spaces admonishing us not to forget the fate of Europe's Jews during the Holocaust.

Museums of history
Germany's Historic Highlights cities offer some of the most comprehensive and exciting museums of history as well. One of the most unusual is the underground museum at Neupfarrplatz Square at Regensburg, where visitors walk through layers of archaeological excavations uncovering nearly 2,000 years of habitation.

In Mainz, nearly 4,000 years of the history of the culture of writing from all over the world are to be experienced in the Gutenberg Museum, where visitors can experience two copies of the world-famous Gutenberg Bible.

Hometown heroes
Travelers can also visit birthplaces and museums dedicated to famous Germans, like Leopold Mozart and Bertolt Brecht in Augsburg, Karl Marx in Trier.