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Today, the Bayerisches Armeemuseum (Bavarian Army Museum) is one of the great military history museums in Europe. The focus of the collections is on Bavaria in its European context in the period from the late Middle Ages to the present day. The collection has an almost systematic character for the period of the Kingdom of Bavaria from the war of 1870/71 to the end of the First World War. The Bayerisches Armeemuseum’s remit is to reflect critically and with historical accuracy on the violence in the military and war context in history as well as its effects on people, society and the state based on its collections.

The Richard Wagner Museum mit Nationalarchiv der Richard-Wagner-Stiftung Bayreuth (Richard Wagner Museum with National Archives of the Richard Wagner Foundation) presents around 12,000 digital copies from the Richard Wagner family archive in bavarikon. This contains the world’s largest and most important collection of autographs, manuscripts, music, objects, photos and literature on Richard Wagner, his wife Cosima and son Siegfried, on Franz Liszt and on the history of the Bayreuth Festival.