Museums in the Munich and Frankfurt Area

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Finally, in the castle main exhibition, there are some nice arms and armor from the 16th and 17th centuries.

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The collection includes some nice early firearms as well.

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Another city easy to visit from Munich is Nuremberg. It has a lovely old town with a beautiful castle, which houses a lot of nice things.

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As typical, the collection starts with arms and armor from the late middle ages. The items here are not as ornate as some of the other museums, but more munitions grade, which is nice too.

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After some more late medieval items, the collections transitions into the 17th century and the Thirty Year War.

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The swords from this period feature a saber inscribed with the biographies of all the Bavarian princes and electors. There are quite a few early firearms as well.

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The collection has some really beautiful accessories, such as powder flasks as well.

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There was another display of attractive swords, of which my personal favorite was the calendar blade.

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Nice to also see some daggers, as well as quite a few zweihanders.

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Horse armor and saddles end the castle museum tour, but there is far more to see in Nuremberg, and I will continue the thread when I have more time next weekend.

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The best museum I visited in Germany was the German National Museum in Nuremberg. It has a fantastic arms and armor collection. One of the first things one sees is a rare great helmet. I also liked the malchus with the carved wooden hilt.

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The collection is predominantly from the late middle ages to the 17th century.

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There is another calendar blade and an amazing blade with scenes and verses from the Bible.

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As one can expect, there are quite a few high-quality items from the Thirty Year War period.

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As usual, there is a section of beautiful hinting weapons and accessories.

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The German National Museum also holds arms and armor from antiquity. For me at least, so many nice bronze swords, daggers and helmets all at the same place was quite a sight.

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The Roman period is represented by some daggers, spathas and helmets, including a unique parade helmet.

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The tour continues into late antiquity and the migration period, with a lot of Lobard grave items.

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Then of course come the Franks and the Carolingian dynasty. I really liked the two Ulfbehrt swords with nice, inlaid pommels.

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Finally, there are a few additional medieval items as part of the medieval art galleries, and this ends my tour of the German National Museum. It is a place where anyone with interest in arms and armor will feel like a kid in a candy store.

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The Frankfurt History Museum can hardly compare to the German National Museum, but it has an interesting section called the "Collectors" Museum", which displays collections of local collectors. Luckily, this includes some nice arms and armor.

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Among the late medieval and Rennaissance arms and armor there are also some blue and gilt swords by a local Frankfurt bladesmith family.

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Apart from swords, there is also armor, crossbows and polearms.

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Instead of labels next to the items, the museum has chosen to put a couple of books with descriptions and a brief history of how the collection came together.

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The firearms collection interestingly enough belonged to Frida Kahlo's great uncle.

[fernando]

Thank you ever so much Teodor, for sharing these magnificent pictures with us in the forum.

[ulfberth]

Thank you Teodore , for the tremendous amount of work and effort you have put into this that lets us enjoy Museums in other countries !
I would be nice to see more museum pictures from other members from all over the world.
Kind regards
Ulfberth

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With some delay, here are a lot of pictures from the Stadtsmuseum in Rothenburg, which houses the Baumann collection.

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The museum is housed in an old building, which from what I recall used to be a monastery. There are other items on display, but I was there for the arms and armor and there was plenty of it.

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The collection starts with a large hall, dedicated to European arms and armor from the late Middle Ages to the 1700s.