The Petersberg Museum is housed in a spacious four-sided farmstead, which was built in 1752 as a royal Prussian forester's lodge. The farmstead served as a forester's lodge for the Petersberg estate for over 220 years. The forester's lodge (now a museum) in Alte Hallesche Straße is protected as a cultural, historical and urban monument. In the Petersberg Museum we show you an exhibition on the history of the historic Saalkreis, one of the oldest historically developed regional authorities in Central Germany. The permanent exhibition "The Augustinian Canons' Monastery on the Petersberg - Konrad von Wettin" provides an introduction to regional history. The exhibition section "Cultural and social history of the 19th century" is housed in the stable room of the former farm building. At the front of the building, the door to a historic bakery is open for you. On a few Sundays a year, the old German oven is heated with wood as in the days of the old foresters and bread is baked according to traditional recipes.

The museum has become famous in recent years for its diverse and interesting special exhibitions, which are always worth a visit. Since September 2016, the permanent exhibition "The Josef Kraus & Co. tin toy factory in Nuremberg" (1910 - 1941) has been on display in the new exhibition building. The exhibition provides exciting impressions for fans of model trains and those interested in technology and gives an interesting insight into the contemporary and economic history of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s.