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===Museums=== * The Richard Wagner Museum at [[Wahnfried]] House was the residence of Richard Wagner and his family's home until 1966. Since 1976 it has been a museum with attached national archives and a research centre for the Richard Wagner Foundation in Bayreuth. * The Jean Paul Museum in the former residence of Richard Wagner's daughter, Eva Chamberlain, with [[autograph]]s, first editions of works, portraits and other pictorial material. * The Franz Liszt Museum in the house where [[Franz Liszt]] died, with about 300 photographs, scripts and printed papers from the collection of the Munich pianist, Ernst Burger, which were bought by the town of Bayreuth. In addition there is a ''Stummklavier'', made by the [[Rud. Ibach Sohn|Ibach company]] of Haus Wahnfried, letters and first editions of Franz Liszt. Biographic information boards, a mould of the font from Liszt's birthplace [[Raiding, Austria]] and Liszt busts by Antonio Galli enhance the collection. Visits are accompanied by the music of Franz Liszt. * The Historical Museum in the Old Latin School on ''Kirchplatz''. On the ground floor it portrays the history and development of Bayreuth from the late Middle Ages to the 20th century with a model of the town in the year 1763. On the first floor are divisions covering the art and cultural history of Bayreuth's margravial period (17th and 18th centuries). Another division portrays arts and crafts in Bayreuth and the surrounding area with examples of faience pottery, glass products from the Fichtelgebirge and stone pottery from [[Creußen]]. Painting, crafts, and early industrial artefacts from the Biedermeier period and the late 19th century round off a visit to the museum. * The [[Kunstmuseum Bayreuth|Museum of Art]] in the Old Town Hall which contains the Helmut and Constanze Meyer Art Foundation, the Georg Tappert collection and the archives and collection of Caspar Walter Rauh. The collections contain key works from the 20th century. They also include the Little Poster Museum (formerly a museum on its own, the collection was integrated into the Museum of Art in 2012<ref>{{Cite web|title=Kunstmuseum Bayreuth: 2012 – Plakatmuseum im Kunstmuseum Bayreuth|url=https://www.kunstmuseum-bayreuth.de/sammlungen/2012-plakatmuseum-im-kunstmuseum-bayreuth/|access-date=2020-11-09|website=www.kunstmuseum-bayreuth.de}}</ref>) and the British American Tobacco's Historical Collection. * The German Typewriter Museum with a collection of over 400 historic typewriters from the Research and Training Centre for Shorthand and Word Processing in Bayreuth. * A branch of the Bavarian State Painting Collection was opened in the New Palace in August 2007. 80 works from Dutch and German painters of the late 17th century and 18th century are displayed. * The Archaeological Museum in the Italian Building of the New Palace was founded in 1827 by the Historic Society. Its eight exhibition rooms include artefacts such as [[New Stone Age]] stone axes, 80 pottery jars from the [[Hallstatt era]] and [[Celts|Celtic]] bronze jewellery. The discoveries on display, which all come from eastern Upper Franconia, especially [[Franconian Switzerland]] and the region around Bayreuth, date from the [[Old Stone Age]] to the [[Middle Ages]]. In the experimental field there is a reconstructed loom, a rock drill and an original ''Schiebemühle''. * [[Brauerei Gebr. Maisel|Maisel's Brewery]] and Cooper's Museum teaches everything about the production of [[Weizen beer]] on a {{convert|2400|m2|0|abbr=on}} layout, making it the largest brewery in the world,<ref>1988 Guinness Book of Records</ref><ref>[http://www.bayreuth.de/tourism/tourist_information/museums_365.html ''Museums in Bayreuth''] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100923014845/http://www.bayreuth.de/tourism/tourist_information/museums_365.html |date=23 September 2010 }} at www.bayreuth.de. Accessed on 18 September 2010.</ref> not least due to its collection of over 5,500 beer glasses and mugs. * The Upper Franconia Prehistory Museum portrays the history of life in Upper Franconia since the beginning of the world. Exhibitions are constantly changing; currently the life-size dinosaurs attract especial interest. * Bayreuth Football Museum (''Altstadt-Kult-Museum'' of [[SpVgg Bayreuth]]) * The Bayreuth of Wilhelmina Museum in the New Castle * Fire Brigade Museum * [[Iwalewahaus|Iwalewa House]], the Africa Centre of the University of Bayreuth * Johann Baptist Graser School Museum * Catacombs of the Bayreuth Aktien Brewery * Margravial state rooms and collection of Bayreuth faiences in the New Castle * Museum of Agricultural Tools and Equipment * Lindenhof Natural History Museum * Richard Wagner Gymnasium School Museum * Wilhelm Leuschner Memorial * Wo Sarazen Art
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