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The Staatsgalerie Würzburg (Würzburg State Gallery) is a paintings gallery at the Würzburg Residenz. It is affiliated to the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen (Bavarian State Paintings Collections). The Staatsgalerie Würzburg exhibits Venetian paintings from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century.

This collection shows works by the sculptor Fritz Koenig: sculptures, paper cuts, drawings and selected sculptures as 3D objects. Many of the pieces belong to the holdings of the KOENIGmuseum in Landshut.

The Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg (Augsburg State and City Library) emerged from the City Library founded in 1537. Today it is the regional library for Augsburg and Bavarian Swabia and the research library for the imperial city of Augsburg, Bavarian Swabia and the Early Modern period's history of knowledge. Other focal points are the collections on Mozart, Brecht and suicide. It also has special collections of pamphlets, biographical documents, dissertations and graphic sheets with portrait collections.

The Richard Wagner Museum mit Nationalarchiv der Richard-Wagner-Stiftung (Richard Wagner Museum with National Archives of the Richard Wagner Foundation) in Bayreuth is run by the Richard Wagner Foundation founded in 1973 and has the remit of preserving and researching the material legacy of Richard Wagner (1813-1883) and expanding its holdings and making them accessible to the public. The museum and national archives were opened in 1976 in the partially rebuilt and reconstructed Haus Wahnfried, Richard Wagner's former home. After an architectural extension and a redesign of the permanent exhibition, the museum was reopened in 2015.

The history of the Diocesan Museum, which opened in 1974, goes back to the 19th century. In addition to the permanent exhibition of Christian art from Upper Bavaria and the Alpine region, many special exhibitions were presented on topics related to the history of piety and art history, as well as contemporary art, until the building was closed in the summer of 2013 due to necessary renovation work.