On the first floor of the museum you can find out that people were already living in the Altmühltal around 200,000 years ago.
The finds that archaeologists have unearthed from the earth in Kelheim and the surrounding area - from the Neanderthals to the Celts, Romans and Bavarians - show a seamless continuity of settlement from the Ice Age to the elevation of Kelheim as a town in the Middle Ages. The exhibition vividly presents how the Danube and Altmühl, two important lifelines, have made Kelheim, the „town on the river“, a place of encounter for thousands of years.
On the upper floor is the town history exhibition, which presents the development of the town of Kelheim over the centuries.
The exhibits provide a lively insight into the everyday and professional life of the ducal trade and craftsmen's town: from wine and beer production to fishermen, shipyards and shipwrights. And time and again, the Wittelsbach dynasty left its mark on the town: From the residence of the first dukes to the towering Royal Liberation Hall.