This museum tells the story of the Fugger and Welser families, whose banking and trading networks made Augsburg one of early modern Europe's financial centres. Exhibits connect local patrician houses to mining, imperial politics, colonial ventures, and global commerce.
It is a smart companion to the Fuggerei and Augsburg's Renaissance civic buildings. The museum helps visitors see the city not just as picturesque Bavaria, but as a place once plugged into the highest levels of European power.