Regensburg holds Albrecht Altdorfer's Danube School panels, the Reichssaal where the Imperial Diet sat for 143 years, and Asam brothers' stucco — plus a working four-venue theatre and a state history museum on the Danube quay.
Bavaria's largest collection of art from Germany's historic eastern territories: some 4,000 paintings and works by Lovis Corinth, Käthe Kollwitz and Oskar Kokoschka, in a 1970 pavilion set in the Stadtpark. Tue–Sun 10:00–17:00.
Underground archaeology beneath the square: excavated cellars of the medieval Jewish quarter razed in 1519, Roman barracks foundations and a WWII air-raid bunker. Access only by 45-minute guided tour, booked at the Tabak Götz kiosk.
The princely Thurn und Taxis residence built into a former Benedictine abbey: mirrored ballroom, throne room and a Romanesque cloister with 13th-century tracery. Interiors open only on timed 45-minute tours.
The Gothic Reichssaal hosted the Perpetual Imperial Diet from 1663 to 1806 beneath a painted timber ceiling of 1408; the same route drops into the medieval torture chamber below. Document Reichstag tours run roughly hourly.
Opened 2019 on the Danube waterfront, the Bavarian state history museum covers 1800 to reunification through 2,500 objects, a working period cinema and a 100-metre panorama screen of the 20th century. Tue–Sun 09:00–18:00.
The municipal gallery fills a granary of about 1600 with classical modernism — the Wolfgang-Bergmann collection, Otto Dix, Fritz Winter — plus rotating shows of contemporary artists from eastern Bavaria across vaulted floors.
Around eighty rooms in a former Minorite friary trace the city from Roman Castra Regina through the free imperial era; the Albrecht Altdorfer panels of the Danube School are the collection's centre of gravity.
Built 1804, one of Germany's oldest continuously working municipal theatres, staging opera, ballet, spoken drama and the Philharmonisches Orchester Regensburg across four houses including the Velodrom and Turmtheater.
Abbey church of the monastery founded in the 8th century: a Romanesque triple-nave basilica reworked in the 1730s with stucco and frescoes by Cosmas Damian and Egid Quirin Asam, above the crypt of St Wolfgang.
Over the Danube, the once-independent island town of Stadtamhof keeps a low baroque streetscape; the Andreasstadel salt warehouse now houses an arthouse cinema, photography rooms and rehearsal studios.
Johannes Kepler died in this merchant's house in November 1630; five furnished period rooms show his instruments, first editions and a model of the Keplerian telescope, run as a branch of the city museums.
A 19th-century malthouse south of the station running as a volunteer-programmed socio-cultural centre since the 1980s: indie and jazz concerts, poetry slams, club nights and summer courtyard cinema.