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The Kommission für bayerische Landesgeschichte bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Commission for Bavarian Regional History at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences) was founded in 1927 as a research institution for the coordination and realisation of long-term basic research on the history of Bavaria and of its diverse parts.

Parish descriptions provide serial 19th and early 20th century sources, which are comparable in content and structure despite some differences and which can be used for church, local, cultural and everyday history research as well as local historiography.

Founded in 1985, the Jüdisches Museum Augsburg Schwaben (Jewish Museum Augsburg Swabia) is the oldest Jewish museum in the Federal Republic of Germany to be supported by a foundation. It sees itself as a place that draws on the Jewish history of Bavarian Swabia to pose questions about the present and future of our society. The museum offers the opportunity to discuss aspects of history and society, migration and integration, homeland, religion and culture from a Jewish perspective.

Manuscripts and printed materials form another part of the collection of the Jüdisches Museum Augsburg Schwaben (Jewish Museum Augsburg Swabia). The collection includes a wide variety of archival materials and objects, such as (prayer) books, letters, certificates, identity documents and postcards.

The JMAS (Jewish Museum Augsburg Swabia) photographic collection comprises approximately 1,000 real photographs, including many originals. An additional 2,500 photographs of people and places are also available in digital form. The photographs selected for bavarikon date from the 19th century to 1945 and have a local connection to Augsburg or the former Jewish rural communities of Bavarian Swabia.

There are two historic synagogues within the current city limits of Augsburg. One is the large synagogue in Augsburg's city centre (Halderstraße), which was built between 1913 and 1917 following the plans of Fritz Landauer (1883-1968) and Heinrich Lömpel (1877-1951). The other is the smaller synagogue in today's Kriegshaber district, which, as the oldest surviving synagogue in Bavarian Swabia, served as the centre of an important Jewish rural community at the gates of Augsburg from the early 18th century until the 20th century. The JMAS (Jewish Museum Augsburg Swabia) collection contains a number of objects and testimonies relating to the two synagogues.

The JMAS (Jewish Museum Augsburg Swabia) collection preserves numerous objects, photos, letters, documents and printed materials from Jewish families and individuals who once lived in Augsburg and the surrounding area. These testimonies were donated to the museum either by their original owners or their descendants as gifts or on permanent loan.

Following the abolition of settlement restrictions in Bavaria from 1861 onwards, the Jewish population of Augsburg grew steadily. The JMAS preserves a whole series of objects and testimonies related to Jewish businesses, associations and institutions.

Since its foundation in 1902, the collection of the Fränkisches Museum Feuchtwangen (Franconian Museum Feuchtwangen) has presented important material evidence of everyday culture and art from Franconia. It encompasses a diverse array of decorated objects from the individuals who resided and worked in the small towns and villages of the Principality of Ansbach from the 16th century onwards.

Since its inception in 1902, the Fränkisches Museum Feuchtwangen (Franconian Museum Feuchtwangen) has been exhibiting significant material evidence of everyday culture and art from the Franconia region. In its current museum building, since 1926, the Fränkisches Museum Feuchtwangen has been showcasing everyday objects utilised by the inhabitants of the small towns and villages of the (former) Principality of Ansbach since the 16th century. The permanent exhibition features a diverse array of everyday art, furniture, household goods, textiles, faience, porcelain, ceramics, everyday items crafted from various materials, guild objects, and agricultural implements. It also provides insight into customs throughout life and the year, as well as sacred art and pious practices.

The historical atlas of Bavaria is a historical-topographical description of Bavaria, documenting the ownership-, government- and administrative structures of the whole region from the middle ages up to the present by means of detailed statistics and cartographic material.