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Culture; operation and promotion of museums by the district

With their museums, the districts offer interesting insights into regional culture and history. The open-air museums are a particular focus. In addition, non-state museums and collections that enjoy supra-regional, district-wide significance are also supported.

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Bezirk Schwaben

Street address

Hafnerberg 10
86152 Augsburg

Postal address

86147 Augsburg

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Bezirk Schwaben

Street address

Alter Postweg 97a
86159 Augsburg

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Alter Postweg 97a

86159 Augsburg

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The districts support a variety of museum types and themes. A particular focus is on open-air museums. The open-air museums of the districts are museums of rural cultural history in the open air, the houses, farms and other rural buildings together with the associated facilities and the immediate surroundings such as gardens.

The districts advise museums on specialist issues, take on cross-sectional tasks from central areas of museum work on request and can support the work of museums through project-related grants.

Funding is provided, for example, for

  • Acquisitions that supplement the collection,
  • the restoration of museum objects,
  • Publications such as catalogs and guides,
  • special and traveling exhibitions,
  • scientific research into the collection,
  • interior design objects and
  • measures with museum educational objectives.

Funding is not provided for ongoing operations or the purchase of furnishings and permanently used equipment.

On application, the districts grant subsidies for the promotion of museums within the framework of the available budget funds. The grants are awarded as project funding at their discretion and in accordance with the significance of the project. There is no legal entitlement to the grant.

Information about the museums in your district or the museums that are run jointly with the respective districts and local sponsoring associations can be found - if available - by entering your place of residence and/or zip code or on the district's website.

  • Culture; information on the cultural work of the districts
    Cultivating regional culture is one of the central tasks of the districts. As active partners and promoters of regional cultural work, the districts want to help shape a lively, social community life that is connected to the respective region.
Status: 20.12.2024
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