Municipal art museum in Ravensburg's old town – Expressionism from the Selinka Collection and contemporary art in the world's first passive-house museum.
August 8, 2026 – November 15, 2026
Room-filling sound installation in which 40 speakers play the individual voices of an eight-choir Renaissance work by Thomas Tallis – the listening experience changes as you move through the room.
August 8, 2026 – November 15, 2026
Expressionist works from the Selinka Collection by Kirchner, Heckel and Munch in dialogue with contemporary artists such as Kader Attia, Daniel Richter and Agnès Varda.
August 8, 2026 – November 15, 2026
Exhibition on Expressionist works from the collection, co-designed by children in workshops; admission to the first floor is free for the duration of the show.
December 5, 2026 – April 4, 2027
235 gouaches from the autobiographical picture-and-text cycle created in exile in southern France by the artist, who was murdered in Auschwitz in 1943; in cooperation with the Jewish Museum Amsterdam.
Kunstmuseum Ravensburg opened in March 2013. It is based on the collection of advertising professional Peter Selinka and his wife Gudrun, who over four decades assembled works of German Expressionism and of the postwar groups CoBrA and SPUR. The Peter-und-Gudrun-Selinka-Stiftung entrusted the collection to the city as a long-term loan; the founding director was Nicole Fritz, and Ute Stuffer has headed the museum since 2018.
The building on Burgstraße was designed by the Stuttgart firm Lederer + Ragnarsdóttir + Oei on a plot formerly occupied by warehouse and commercial buildings. A construction company built it as the developer, and the city rents it. The façade of reused bricks integrates the building into the historic old town, and as the world's first certified museum built to passive-house standards, it set new benchmarks for energy-efficient construction. Among other honors, the building received the German Architecture Prize (Deutscher Architekturpreis) 2013 and was named Museum of the Year in 2015 by the German section of the art critics' association AICA.
The Selinka Collection of around 230 works, with a focus on Die Brücke, Der Blaue Reiter, CoBrA and SPUR, is shown in changing selections. In addition, there are temporary exhibitions on 20th- and 21st-century art as well as formats that bring works from the collection into dialogue with contemporary art.
| Adults | €9 |
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| Reduced | €6Groups of 10 or more, people with disabilities ("B" marker), holders of a Tafel (food bank) ID |
| Children & teens | freefree up to age 17 · Children and teens up to age 18 free; school classes including accompanying adults free. |
| Seniors | –No senior discount listed. |
| Visitors with disabilities | €6companion free · Reduced price with "B" marker; companion admitted free. |
| Students & apprentices | freeStudents and apprentices (including FSJ/BFD volunteers) free. |
| Groups (10+ people) | €6 per person10 or more people. Group tour (max. 25 people) €75 plus €6 admission per person; tour in a foreign language +€10. |
| Families | –No family ticket; children up to age 18 free. |
| Annual pass | €25 |
| Ravensburger Museumskarte (Ravensburg museum card) | €20One admission to each of the four city museums, transferable |
| Public guided tour (Sun 15:00, plus admission) | €6 |
| Curator's tour (plus admission) | €7 |
| Children's studio during market time (Sat 11:00–13:00) | €5Siblings €3 |
Free admission: Museum Fridays with €1 admission; remaining dates in 2026: October 30, November 13 and December 18
€2 discount (€7) with the Echt Bodensee Card, ART-Card, Schwäbische Zeitung subscriber card, and for visitors arriving with a bwtarif or Deutschland-Ticket (bwegtPlus). Free admission with the Bodensee-Erlebniskarte, for members of the friends' association and ICOM/DMB, among others.
Step-free routes inside the museum, push-button entrance door, elevator. No dedicated accessible parking spaces; with a disabled parking permit, free parking for up to 3 hours in the loading zones on Marktstraße and in pay-and-display spaces, otherwise use the Gänsbühl parking garage. Free tours in plain language with an art workshop; website section in Easy German.
Great for kids & families
| Kids’ admission | free up to age 17 |
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Children's studio on Saturdays for ages 6 to 12, open studio, "MINI mal!" for parents or grandparents with children aged 3 to 6, programs for parents with babies, and children's birthday parties from age 6.
Marienplatz · 300 m
About a 10-minute walk from Ravensburg train station; alternatively bus 1, 3, 4, 8, 7537, 7545 or 7373 to Marienplatz, then 300 m. On-demand bus MOBI (weekdays 7:00–18:00) with stops Burgstraße 9 and Marktstraße 24.
Parking available · 5-min walk to the entrance
No dedicated parking; the Marienplatz (P1), Frauentor (P3), Rauenegg (P4) and Gänsbühl (P5) parking garages are within a 5-minute walk.
Catalogs and publications in the museum shop. Parking garages Marienplatz (P1), Frauentor (P3), Rauenegg (P4) and Gänsbühl (P5) within a 5-minute walk. Children's studio on Saturdays, open studio.
The museum hasn’t published any information on this – please ask the museum directly.
| Guided tours | yes · approx. 60 min |
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| School programs | yes |
| Good to know | Public guided tour on Sundays at 15:00 (approx. 1 hour); curator's tours and tours on architecture and art on selected dates; free English-language tours. Programs for daycare centers, schools and student groups free of charge (funded by the friends' association). Registration: anmeldung.kunstmuseum@ravensburg.de, tel. 0751 82-2685; dates can also be booked via the city's online ticket shop. Office and mailing address: Marktstraße 22. |
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