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Suggestions for visiting museums in the surrounding region of Geiersthal
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Castle museum Altnussberg
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"Gläserne Scheune" (Glass barn) in Raubühl
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The finds, which were discovered when the castle grounds Altnussberg were excavated and renovated, are exhibited in this museum.
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A stained-glass maker makes his lifelong dream come true and creates a barn with stained glass.
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Kristallmuseum (Crystal and gemstone museum) Viechtach
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The vault of secrets in Viechtach
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More than 1000 crystals and minerals will bewitch you. In the Crystal Museum Viechtach you can marvel at all kinds of gemstones.
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Plunge into ancient Egypt. Learn of mystical and interesting things from ancient Greece.
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Chandler and Gingerbread maker (Lebzelter) museum ‚Wachsstöckelkabinett’ – Viechtach
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Natural landmark ‚Großer Pfahl’
– Pfahl information center Viechtach
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In the wax taper museum ‚Wachsstöcklkabinett (Café Hinkofer)’ a historical collection of chandlers and gingerbread makers can be admired.
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The ‚Pfahl’ – a fault in the rock stratum of the mountains of the Bavarian Forest, which is filled with quartz and shale – offers one of the most fascinating nature spectacles in Eastern Bavaria.
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"Gläserne Destille" (Glass distillery) in Böbrach
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Lower Bavarian Agricultural Museum in Regen
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The first distillery to show how schnapps is made from Bärwurz. There are also a schnapps-museum and a tasting room.
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This museum documents the regional agricultural and social history.
The transition from extensive cultivation of land to intensified, market-orientated production is brought into focus.
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Waldmuseum (Forest Museum) Zwiesel
"Forest - Homeland - Glass"
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Local railway museum in Bayerisch Eisenstein
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It is the first German museum of this type and demonstrates impressively the forest and its wildlife, the middle-class and agrarian past of the Bavarian Forest.
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There you can see over 20 historical railed vehicles of more than 100 years of history of development of local, vicinal and light railways in Bavaria.
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Glass museum
in Frauenau
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Folk religiousness; Linen: from seed to woven fabric;
Old pictures of Viechtach
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A historical documentation about glass from the early stages to the present, with lots exhibits also from international glass artists.
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Geiger-Mühle Arnbruck (Geiger mill in Arnbruck)
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Brandy museum in the Bärwurz-distillery Drexler in Kötzting
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An old flour mill with sawmill and an historical exhibition
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More than 200 historical exhibits show the production from mashing to distilling and bottling the different types of schnapps.
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Bauernhausmuseum Lindberg
(Farmhouse-museum in Lindberg)
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Animal museum Pfeifer in Regenhütte
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The farmhouse-museum bears vividly witness what a farmer’s life was like in former centuries. It shows an overall picture how life used to be in the Bavarian Forest.
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This is Europe’s largest animal museum with all kinds of animals living on our continents from little mouse to big elephant.
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Museum village Bavarian Forest in Tittling
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Open-air museum Finsterau
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In this museum there is a collection of everything which had been existing for centuries in the old villages of the Bavarian Forest.
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Farmhouses, inn, blacksmith’s shop and gardens, surrounded by old farmland amidst the border woods
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Pilgrimage museum in Neukirchen beim hl. Blut
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The pilgrimage museum was equipped from the archives of the pilgrimage church. Aspects of folks religiousness, the course of a pilgrimage and pilgrimage customs are shown there.
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