Cultural history museum on Celle's Schlossplatz covering folk culture and urban and regional history – with a farmhouse built inside and portrait miniatures.
June 28, 2026 – March 29, 2027
Shows the benefits and dangers of nuclear research from the discovery of X-rays in 1895 to the neutron bomb; the starting point is the uranium isotope separation moved to Celle in 1944, to the Spinnhütte silk mill.
From June 27, 2020
146 portrait miniatures from 1795 to 1815 from the collection of the Tansey Miniatures Foundation – small-format portraits, often for private use, of high artistic craftsmanship.
On the occasion of the town's 600th anniversary in 1892, citizens of Celle founded a museum association, which first moved into a temporary building on Bergstraße and ran the museum as the “Vaterländisches Museum” (Patriotic Museum). From 1898, the manufacturer Wilhelm Bomann shaped its work as chairman: he focused the collection on rural culture, town history, and Hanoverian military history and raised funds for a prestigious new building opposite the palace, which opened in 1907. The museum has borne his name since 1923.
During the Nazi era, the museum conformed to the ruling ideology; the collections survived the war largely unscathed. Since 1938, the City of Celle has been the main operator alongside the association. After the war, the pewter, silver, and painting holdings grew, and from 1979 industrial history, a storage facility with restoration workshops, and a textile display were added. In 1993, an annex was completed, which is also used by the Kunstmuseum (art museum) established at that time.
Since 2006, the Residenzmuseum in Celle Palace has been a separately presented department of the Bomann-Museum. From 2010 to 2013, the permanent exhibition was completely redesigned: since then, six tours have led through urban and regional history, through the Low German hall house built inside the museum, through middle-class domestic culture, the world of work and industry, through the “discovery” of the Lüneburg Heath, and through stories of migration in the Celle region. Another focus is European portrait miniatures from the Tansey Miniatures Foundation. Stefan Daberkow has directed the museum since September 2021.
| Adults | €8 |
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| Reduced | €5Groups of 5 or more, people with severe disabilities (50% or more), holders of the volunteer card (Ehrenamtskarte), university students, apprentices, recipients of Bürgergeld (basic income support), people in voluntary service (FSJ, FÖJ, BFD, voluntary military service), visitors with a palace tour ticket on the same day |
| Children & teens | freeChildren and school students get free admission. |
| Seniors | –No senior discount listed. |
| Visitors with disabilities | €5companion free · From a degree of disability of 50; a registered companion is admitted free. |
| Students & apprentices | €5University students and apprentices reduced; students of history, art history, folklore/European ethnology, and conservation free; school students free. |
| Groups (5+ people) | €5 per personPrivate guided tours (approx. 60 min.): up to 14 people €40, 15 or more €50, plus admission in each case. |
| Combination ticket with the Residenzmuseum in Celle Palace | €15Reduced €10; one-time admission to the Residenzmuseum on the day of purchase or the next opening day. |
| Guided tour for blind and visually impaired visitors (60 min.) | €50Max. 14 people, plus admission. |
Free admission: Every last Saturday of the month; also for everyone on their own birthday, on January 4 (Wilhelm Bomann's birthday), and on International Museum Day.
Joint ticket: the ticket is valid for a full month from the date of purchase for the Bomann-Museum (permanent and special exhibitions) and the Kunstmuseum Celle with the Robert Simon Collection, and is transferable. Free admission for groups including members of the museum association, museum federations, the Deutscher Museumsbund, and ICOM.
The main entrance is up a flight of stairs: wheelchair users ring the bell at the bottom of the main staircase (wheelchair symbol) and are guided into the building through the neighboring Kunstmuseum. Wheelchair-accessible public restroom (Euro key) on Fritz-Grasshoff-Gasse next to the Kunstmuseum. Multisensory tours for blind and visually impaired visitors by appointment.
Great for kids & families
"KUKI" creative workshop on Fridays and Saturdays (registration required), experiment courses with "Doc Hu", family tours and children's birthday parties (from 120 minutes).
About a 15-minute walk from Celle station (ICE, IC, Metronom); numerous CeBus lines stop directly in front of the museum. Bike box on the Stechbahn across the street.
Parking available
No parking directly at the museum. Public options: Parkhaus Südwall (max. 5-minute walk), Parkgarage Congress-Union (GPS: Bullenberg, max. 7 minutes), free Schützenplatz parking lot (GPS: Hafenstraße, max. 10 minutes), Parkhaus Nordwall (about 10 minutes).
Museum café in the old pharmacy (barista Marvin Sarb) with breakfast, lunch menu, cake from the Celle confectioner Baxmann, and an inner courtyard in summer. Museum shop with books, regional products and children's toys.
The museum hasn’t published any information on this – please ask the museum directly.
| Guided tours | yes · approx. 60 min |
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| Audio guide | yes (DE, EN) |
| School programs | yes |
| Good to know | Audio and media guide with 40 stops as a web app via QR code or as a rental device at the ticket desk. Public tours on many Sundays; private group tours on about ten topics; programs for daycare centers and schools. |
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