House of Bavarian History — Attraction in Regensburg

When i go to a museum, and one of the exhibits is the exact bag of flour as I have in my kitchen, I start to wonder.

The Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte (Museum of Bavarian History) is located in Regensburg in a prime location right on the Danube. It covers Bavarian history from 1800 to the present. The exhibition includes paintings, photos, memorabilia, material culture (uniforms, old postcards and letters, bicycles, weapons, crowns, flags, groceries etc.) plus “to-do” activities to document the main events.

Although you are given a “map” at the entrance, the museum is extremely difficult to navigate. I did not see any restrooms available in the exhibition area (they were on the ground floor). There are few benches and chairs for visitors.

After the initial section on the Bavarian kings, the museum becomes a combination of Dollar Store on the Danube and Bavarian Tourist Bureau. There is no lack of Bavarian cliché: Alps (stuffed animals), beer (huge collection of beer steins), soccer (Bayern München shirts), cars (BMW and Audi), Ludwig II (castles) and folksy Bavarian poliicians (Franz Josef Strauss).

This museum is basically a self-congratulatory pastiche of pop culture and nostalgic trinkets, interesting only to Bavarians, Bavaria fans, and nostalgia buffs. For those interested in Bavarian history, I recommend the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum (Bavarian National...

Excellent museum. Every first Sunday like today and also because of the Regensburg Marathon the entrance was free. Very interesting place with many different exhibitions, temporary like one on Emperor Kaiser Ludwig I but also the permanent on the history of Baviera and its many facets as you can see clearly from the pictures, from Napoleonic wars to the different emperors, to sports or political life in the state, different experiences with politics or Nazism, literature or other cultural practices. It seems to me that it gives a very good and complete picture of what Bavaria is and was and of its many faces like a huge mosaic. Also well designed for kids, families and it has for everyone something. Also accessible for handycapped persons, has a library, lockers and a restaurant is next to it with a...

The museum of missed opportunities. It's shiny new, the building itself is grandiose, it promises a lot (360 degree movie!) - and disappoints you at the end. The movie was hard to understand even for native Germans & the English voiceover didn't work. The media guide recommended tour was not in line with the exhibition. If you try to follow the arrows on the ground, you get lost and confused in the timeline - the storytelling is botched (not to mention the factual errors - and Franconia???) and the exhibition misses the interaction with the visitors. That's not what one expects from a contemporary...