Domschatzmuseum, Regensburg

The Regensburg Diocesan Museums are the museums of the Regensburg diocese in Regensburg. In detail, these are: the Museum St. Ulrich Domplatz No. 2 Location: 49° 1′ 8,6″ N, 12° 5′ 57,7″ E, the Cathedral Treasury Location: 49° 1′ 12,3″ N, 12° 5′ 50,9″ E, the Depot Administration and Workshops in the Obermünster Location: 49° 0′ 58″ N, 12° 5′ 40″ E.

The early Gothic church of St. Ulrich, built from 1220 to 1230, was originally intended as a ducal palace chapel, but from 1240 it served as a cathedral parish church. The interior of the church is decorated with frescoes from the 13th to 16th centuries. In 1824 the church was profaned. After several renovations, it housed the exhibits of the Diocesan Museum from 1986 and also served as a statio church of the Regensburg Cathedral Chapter. Due to extensive restoration work, the Museum St. Ulrich is currently closed and is only used temporarily for special exhibitions. Most recently, the exhibition "Two Towers for the King" was shown there in the summer of 2019 to mark the 150th anniversary of the completion of Regensburg Cathedral's towers. The former permanent exhibition of the Museum St. Ulrich featured medieval goldsmith art in the lower level, Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo exhibits in the galleries and contemporary pieces in the entrance area. Among the 250 exhibits, the church treasures of the former monasteries of St. Emmeram, St. Johann and Niedermünster are particularly noteworthy. Showpieces are the shepherd's crooks of St. Emmeram and St. Wolfgang from the 12th century, a ciborium made of ivory, the so-called "Wolfgangsmitra" from the 13th century, the so-called butterfly reliquary and the panel painting Beautiful Mary by Albrecht Altdorfer. Some of the exhibits have since been presented in the cathedral treasury, such as the famous butterfly reliquary.

Founded in 1974, the Cathedral Treasury in the rooms of the former episcopal residence displays mainly late medieval exhibits of the Cathedral Treasury, which before the foundation of the museum had been kept in a vaulted chamber behind the south choir of the Cathedral. The rooms are decorated with Renaissance frescoes. On display are, among others, the so-called Regensburg enamel box in the shape of a house, made around 1400 by workshops of the French courts, which served to store relics, the Wandula altar, the Wolfgang chalice from 1250/60, the Ottokar cross donated by the Bohemian King Ottokar II for the Agnes monastery in Prague, silver oil bottles of Bishop Heinrich II of Rotteneck from the end of the 13th century and chasubles.

The historic rooms of the free noble Obermünster convent have been used for temporary exhibitions, scientific conferences, concerts and readings since the 1970s. Today, on the other hand, the rooms house the depot administration and workshops of the art collections of the Regensburg diocese. They are not open to the public.