Museums of Bad Urach - history on display

There can be no more impressive way of experiencing the history of the region and the town than to visit where it all happened. If your walk through the historic town with its timber-framed houses has made you curious, you can trace the glorious past of the former residential town in the town museum "Klostermühle" (monastry mill) or in the Residenzschloss (Castle Residence).

Town museum Klostermühle

Hermann-Prey-Platz 3 (town centre)
Telephone +49 (0) 71 25 4 06 00

Opening times:
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday 2pm to 5pm, Thursday 2pm to 6pm, Sunday 10am to 12.00pm and 1pm to 5pm, closed Mondays.

The town museum was opened in 1990. The mill wheel and part of the machinery of the former grain mill have been preserved. From summer 2006, the private Geigle grammophone collection (previously in the grammophone museum in Bad Urach-Hengen) will be exhibited on three floors.
The impressive exhibition of these functional devices ranges from the beginning to the current state of the art.
Four to five special exhibitions on art and culture are organised every year.

Residenzschloß Bad Urach (Castle Residence)

Bismarckstraße 18 (town centre)
Telephone +49 (0) 71 25 158 490
Fax +49 (0) 71 25 158 499

Opening times:
November till March: Tuesday to Friday 1pm to 4pm, Tuesday to Thursday 9am - 12am, Saturday, Sunday and public holidays 11am to 4pm
April till October: Tuesday to Sonntag and public holidays 10am to 5pm
Closed on 24th, 25th an 31st December and January 1st.

The Castle Residence displays interiors of particular interest for the region and the arts, e.g. the late Gothic "Dürnitz" (Main Hall), the "Palmensaal" (Hall of Palms) with the ancestral table of Count Eberhard V of Württemberg, the Renaissance "Goldener Saal" (Golden Hall) and the Baroque "Weißer Saal" (White Hall).

An exhibition of twenty-two gloriously carved and gold-plated grand sledges from the collection of the Württemberg State Museum in Stuttgart reminds us of the magnificent court of the Württemberg Baroque Duke Carl Eugen (1744-1793).

Visual information and audio guides throughout the building provide information on the history of the region and the house. In the spacious stairway the history of the Schwäbischer Albverein (hiking club for the Swabian Alb) has been documented.