MUSEUM EXCURSION WITH CHILDREN IN REGENSBURG!

Museum visits can be great fun and are often ideal for rainy days. Take a trip back in time and discover exciting things – a trip to a museum can be a great experience. We’ve taken a look around and collected a few recommendations for you.

Here are the RegensburgNow tips for a museum visit with children:

Museum for children – a playground for the imagination

For treasure hunters, puzzle lovers and explorers! The Museum for Children is a project of the art collections of the Diocese of Regensburg and the museum educators have developed a great children’s program with workshops, guided tours and puzzle tours. You can go on a journey of discovery in the cathedral treasury, the cathedral, the Niedermünster document, the Porta Praetoria document and St. Emmeram’s Church. Exciting games and thrilling adventures included.
The offers cost €5 per participant, adults and children alike, and children must be accompanied by at least one supervisor (does not apply to the vacation workshops and group tours).
The program is magical, for example on the guided tour “From A for eagle to T for dove” you discover the cathedral treasure with a flashlight.
In “Goldfinger Detectives – top secret missions in the cathedral treasure”, children slip into detective roles. Once all the treasures have been discovered and all the tasks unraveled, the children can make a gold chalice and take it home as a souvenir.
Children’s birthday parties can also be booked here, for example children can discover the cathedral with a treasure map.
Here you can find the annual program

Registration via DOMPLATZ-5
domfuehrungen@bistum-regensburg.de

KOG – Art Forum East German Gallery

The Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie also offers various activities for children. In addition to workshops, vacation workshops and hands-on tours, there is also KOGGI, the red museum mascot, and the art guide “Through the museum with Koggi”. This allows children to explore the fascinating world of art in the museum on their own or together with their parents. There are several routes with different stations in the permanent exhibition, exciting stories as well as search and guessing games.

An interactive audio guide is available free of charge as a smartphone app. The app introduces the artworks in a playful way, the game leads you from artwork to artwork and there are puzzles and quizzes.

The KunstKästchen
The art boxes are a great idea: The “Mold or unicorn?” art box is a red box with everything you need for a creative lesson at home. It contains materials and a link to the video with instructions. The KOG museum educators describe step by step how to create a small work of art.
At the KunstKästchen “Now it’s getting colorful! Art for the children’s room ” there are paper instructions instead of a video.

Cost: €7 (plus €5.50 for postage and packaging). D he KunstKästchen can be ordered and collected from the museum. The KunstKästchen can also be sent by post on request.

Children’s birthday parties can also be booked here. There are several opportunities to celebrate and do handicrafts in the museum.

KOG – Art Forum East German Gallery
Dr.-Johann-Maier-Str. 5
D-93049 Regensburg

Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum of Eastern Bavaria is located in a classicist ducal palace in Herzogspark. Nature and environmental education plays an important role at the Natural History Museum; there are various children’s events, a great research box and the opportunity to celebrate children’s birthdays here.
The exhibitions at the Natural History Museum deal with the geological foundations, the geological formation up to the appearance of man, as well as nature in the region of Eastern Bavaria. The history room is worth a visit as a recreated natural history cabinet and the “wooden library” from 1795 is a particular gem.

Explorer boxes
Families with children have the opportunity to borrow a researcher’s box with instructions, useful materials and a questionnaire for a rental fee of €1.50. To find the solution word, the group puzzles its way through the museum exhibition using the items provided.

Discover Regensburg with the Nature City Game
In spring and summer, small groups have the opportunity to borrow the nature city game, complete with material bag, magnifying glass, identification book, binoculars etc., for a fee of €5 and a deposit of €30 at the ticket office of the Natural History Museum. Guided by a special city map, the group is taken on a short tour through the city center and along the Danube to a number of “sights of urban nature” and answers questions there. Those who return their sheets to the museum with their name and address will also have the chance to win a prize at the end of the outdoor season in the fall.

Natural History Museum of Eastern Bavaria
Am Prebrunntor 4
93047 Regensburg

Dachshund Museum

Regensburg is home to the only dachshund museum in the world. Over 5,000 exhibits are on display in showcases. The collection of 10,000 objects was compiled over 25 years by the two master florists Seppi Küblbeck and Oliver Storz. Of course, three real dachshunds are also part of the dachshund museum. By the way, dogs are allowed in the exhibition.

Dachshund Museum
Weiße-Hahnen-Gasse 3/5
93047 Regensburg

Danube Maritime Museum

Between the Historische Wurstkuchl and the Iron Bridge are two museum ships, the Freudenau and the Ruthof. The latter ship has an eventful history: it was built in 1922/1923 at the Ruthof shipyard in Regensburg, after which the ship was named, and then operated as a train ship on the Danube. In 1944, the Ruthof ran aground on a mine near the town of Érsekcsanád in southern Hungary and sank. The wreck was raised and reconstructed in 1956. From then on, the ship sailed under the Hungarian flag under the name Érsekcsanád and repeatedly returned to Regensburg as a steam tug. In 1979, it was acquired by the Regensburg Maritime Museum Working Group and converted into a museum ship.

Danube Navigation Museum
Thundorfer Straße / Marc-Aurel-Ufer,
93047 Regensburg

Of course, the Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte also has a museum education program. In addition to various hands-on stations, you can book group tours for children. For example, which inventions and discoveries there are from Bavaria. There are also printable craft instructions on the homepage that can be used to recreate the museum.

We would also like to recommend the free visitor center World Heritage Regensburg, which is located in the Salzstadel near the Stone Bridge. On two floors, you will find impressive interactive play stations and media installations as well as fascinating exhibits about Regensburg and its history.
Admission is free.

Extra tip

NAWAREUM in Straubing

Just 48 km away in Straubing, there is a great hands-on museum for sustainability. There you can immerse yourself in a variety of topics such as nature, climate change, plants and the environment and understand future technologies.

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