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Museums on Lake Starnberg

Life on the lake and the court boats of the Wittelsbachs, Empress Elisabeth, German Expressionism in a ship-shaped museum, copper treasures and 3,000 years of Tutzing.

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Museum Starnberger See

Local history museum founded in 1913 in the historic Lochmann fisherman's house, showing life on the lake and the Wittelsbach court boats such as the rowing barge 'Delphin'.

Possenhofener Straße 5, 82319 Starnberg

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Seasonal: May–October

Empress Elisabeth Museum

Museum about Empress Elisabeth ('Sisi') and her family, housed in the former royal railway station of Possenhofen, including the 1865 state waiting room.

Schlossberg 2, 82343 Pöcking (Possenhofen)

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Art museum

Buchheim Museum of Fantasy

Lakeside art museum opened in 2001 in a ship-like building by Behnisch, Behnisch & Partner, showing Lothar-Günther Buchheim's collection of German Expressionism (Brücke painters) and ethnographic objects.

Am Hirschgarten 1, 82347 Bernried am Starnberger See

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Copper Museum Fischen

Private foundation museum (since 2006) in a listed estate in Fischen near the Ammersee, showing one of Central Europe's largest collections of historic copper objects, including court kitchenware from Wittelsbach and Habsburg households.

Herrschinger Straße 1, 82396 Pähl-Fischen

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Tutzing Local Museum

Small museum in a former schoolhouse presenting 3,000 years of Tutzing's cultural history.

Graf-Vieregg-Straße 14, 82327 Tutzing

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