Culture
Exploring the city´s cultural life
Take some time to get to know the city and discover its many facets. You'll be inspired. The Maximilian Museum helps visitors trace the history of Augsburg. Also featured are numerous exhibits from the era of the city's great silver- and goldsmith masters.
The Deutsche Barockgalerie (German Baroque Gallery) in the Schaezlerpalais (Schaezler Palace) contains works of German Old Masters, among them Hans Holbein the Elder, Hans Burgkmair, Lucas Cranach and Albrecht Dürer.
The "Römisches Museum"(Roman Museum) exhibits
archaeological
finds from the founding of the city at the time of Christ's birth, and from later centuries when the Roman ruled the land.The Mozarthaus (Mozart House) reminds us that the great Wolfgang Amadeus had forefathers from the region. Representing literature is Bertolt Brecht. The memorial "Brechthaus" (Brecht House) in his name houses a documentation of the writer's Augsburg years.
The Stadttheater (City Theater) is a mecca for music and theater lovers. Widely acclaimed are performances of opera and
operetta on the "Freilichtbühne" (open air stage).
The two-nave hall church of the former St. Magdalena monastery features the "Römisches Museum" (Roman Museum) with a multitude of prehistoric exhibits and interesting finds from the Roman empire.
Patrician House, built in 1546. The painting of the facade was reconstructed according to old patterns. The museum presents interesting evidence of town history as well as a large exhibition of goldsmith's work and silverwork of famous Augsburg masters. Courtyard with precious bronze sculptures from the Augsburg fountains.
Surpassed only by Vienna and Salzburg, Augsburg is the next most significant city in the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Paternally, the Mozarts are a Swabian family. The first ancestors of the composer came from today's administrative district of Augsburg. In 1643 the first of these ancestors migrated to and became a citizen of the city of Augsburg. Buildings, monuments and monumental plaques serve as reminders of the Mozarts who themselves were master builders, sculptors and bookbinders. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart traveled to "my daddy's hometown" five times. He experienced his first love affair with his cousin, the Augsburg "Bäsle".
Bertolt Brecht was born in 1898 in this typical craftsman's house located on a canal of the River Lech. Today it contains the "Bertolt Brecht Gedenkstätte" (Bertolt Brecht Memorial), a museum dedicated to the work both of Brecht and of young artists.
In one of Bavaria's first factories, the 
The "Staatsgalerie Altdeutsche Meister" (State Gallery of "Old Masters") set up inside St. Katharina Church in 1835 is the oldest affiliate gallery in the Bavarian State Painting Collections. The gallery comprises paintings of the Augsburg and Swabian schools of the late Middle Ages and the early Renaissance. Numerous works included were commissioned by patrician families for churches and cloisters of the historical free imperial city. At the heart of the collection is Dürer's portrait of Jakob Fugger the Rich as well as the world-renowned series of paintings of the Roman basilicas by Hans Holbein the Elder and Hans Burgkmair. Further works from Christoph Amberger, Leonhard Beck, Jörg Breu the Elder, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Hans Schäufelein und Bernhard Strigel provide an overall view of Augsburg's painting tradition and history.
"Die Kiste" (Museum of the Augsburg Puppet Theater) is found one floor above the theater in the "Heilig-Geist-Spital" (Hospital of the Holy Spirit), a former hospital now preserved as a historical monument. In addition to the display of the well-loved marionettes, the museum also presents the history of the theater.
Augsburg's Christkindlesmarkt radiates the charm of the holiday season with more than 500 years of tradition. Every weekend evening, the impressive Renaissance "Rathaus" (Town Hall) turns into a huge Advent calendar as twenty-four angels make music while standing in the windows of the Renaissance structure.
