A reference list of twelve public museums, brewery heritage centres and visitor archives dedicated to the history of beer. Information is provided for educational purposes only.
The historic Carlsberg brewery, founded in 1847 by J. C. Jacobsen. Visitors discover the famous Elephant Gate, the old brewhouse, the Jacobsen family villa and the laboratory where modern yeast science was born in 1883.
Seven floors of Irish brewing heritage built inside a former fermentation plant. The museum tells the 260-year story of Guinness from the 9,000-year lease signed by Arthur Guinness in 1759.
Housed in the original 1867 brewery building, the museum traces the Heineken family business from a small Amsterdam brewery to a worldwide brand. Historic brewing equipment is preserved on-site.
The birthplace of pale lager. Tours include the historic brewhouse, the kilometres of sandstone cellars where beer is still matured in the traditional way, and the gates built for the brewery's 50th anniversary.
A specialised museum in Prague's Old Town presenting Czech brewing history from monastic origins to contemporary craft brewers — with original cooperage tools, mash tuns and historic beer mats.
Located in the historic Brewers' House on the Grand Place — the guild building of Belgian brewers since the 18th century. The museum preserves a fully restored 18th-century brewery and a modern brewing display.
Located in the historic vaulted cellars of the former Benedictine Michelsberg monastery brewery. Over 1,300 objects illustrate the work of the Franconian brewer, cooper and maltster.
The Bavarian Brewery Museum traces nearly 4,000 years of brewing history in a former Mönchshof brewery building — combining a museum, an active show brewery and an archive of beer culture.
The Den Hoorn brewing tradition has operated in Leuven since 1366 — making it among the oldest continuously brewing sites in Europe. Public tours present brewing equipment from the 19th century onwards.
Founded in 1589 as the royal brewery of the Bavarian Wittelsbach dynasty. The historic beer hall is open to the public and a small in-house exhibition presents over four centuries of Munich brewing tradition.
A family brewery active in central Bruges since 1856. The museum includes original 19th-century brewing rooms, an underground beer pipeline beneath the city and the Henri Maes archives.
One of Europe's largest brewery worlds, presenting the story of Stiegl beer, brewed in Salzburg since 1492. Mozart himself was a known patron of the brewery.
