Here everyone gets his money's worth.

 

The Black Forest is rich in culture in many respects. No wonder, then, that quite a few museums have established themselves here with various focuses such as art, crafts, history and so on. Almost all communities have at least one, often these are private collections that are made accessible to the public. It is worth mentioning that most of the museums are geared towards families and try to impart knowledge and make it tangible. So take a look, it's definitely worth it.

 

In the following you will get a small selection of what you can marvel at here.

 

A big topic in the Black Forest is clock-making. There is the German Clock Museum in Furtwangen. It shows with its rich inventory not only the history of clock-making in the Black Forest as well as the industry that emerged from it, but also offers particularly worth seeing pieces from all over the world. One thousand clocks are exhibited, the total stock amounts to 8,000.

 

In Triberg there is a museum of local history with a historical clock-maker's workshop. You can also admire traditional costumes and automatic musical instruments. The monastery museum of St. Märgen offers another interesting collection of clocks.

 

The German Phono Museum in St. Georgen highlights the products of the phonographic industry from its beginnings to modern times. On display are phonographs and gramophones, record players (not only from two well-known manufacturers that once existed in St. Georgen) and other devices from the field of consumer electronics. The museum was founded in 2011. Also in the town is the Hermann Papst Museum in the historic Mühlegg building, dedicated to the inventor and manufacturer of the same name.

 

The tour continues in the valley of the river Kinzig. There, Wolfach offers a glass museum dedicated to glassblowing in the Black Forest. The Schüttesäge Museum in the neighboring town of Schiltach deals with rafting, tanning and the timber industry. It was opened in 1989 and contains a model of a Kinzig raft as a special exhibit. Tanning techniques are also demonstrated. There are corresponding leathers for each of these.

 

In the open-air museum Vogtsbauernhöfe near Gutach you can visit historical Black Forest houses in all their diversity. In addition to a building that has stood on the spot since 1612, others have been added. Farms from various villages in the region served as models and have been faithfully reconstructed on the grounds of the open-air museum. Some of them were disassembled at their place of origin and their components were numbered in order to reassemble them in Gutach. So you could say it was a giant look-through puzzle.

 

Another open-air museum is the Klausenhof Herrischried or the Resenhof in Bernau. The latter is a farm built in 1789 that has been used as a museum since 1977.

 

In Hinterzarten there is a ski museum founded by Georg Thoma. It is located in the Hugenhof, a farmhouse more than three hundred years old, where not only the history of winter sports in the Black Forest is presented, but also exhibits on ski equipment and winter sports fashion.

 

In the mountain Schauinsland not far from Freiburg there is a museum mine. There is also a visitor mine in Freudenstadt called "Holy Three Kings".

 

On the Feldberg, more precisely the Seebuck, there is a ham museum located in a former radio tower. Bathing facilities from Roman times can be visited in Baden-Baden and in Hüfingen. In Pforzheim, the second largest city in the Black Forest, jewelry making is a theme. Therefore, there is a jewelry museum there.

 

Not to forget, of course, several art museums and collections. These include the Grässlin Collection in St. Georgen, which is closely associated with the artist Martin Kippenberger, and especially the Frieder Burda Museum in Baden-Baden. Located right next to the Kunsthalle, it opened in 2004 and features classical as well as contemporary artworks and special exhibitions. The museum is very popular, not least because of its bright, light-filled rooms. Moreover, it is connected to the adjacent Kunsthalle by a bridge made of glass. Both houses offer joint events.

 

Also quite worth seeing is the Museum Art.Plus in Donaueschingen, formerly called "Bidermannmuseum". Here contemporary art is offered in various exhibitions, showing both international and regional artists. The museum opened its doors in 2009 in a house built as early as 1841 with a varied history.