Beatlemania Hamburg, Music museum in St. Pauli, Hamburg, Germany

Beatlemania Hamburg was a music museum in St. Pauli, spread across five floors with eleven exhibition rooms dedicated to The Beatles. A model of a yellow submarine hung above the entrance, making the building easy to spot from the street.

The museum opened in 2009 and closed in 2012, focusing on the Beatles' early years in Hamburg during the 1960s. The band performed in clubs near the Reeperbahn during that period, before becoming known across the world.

The museum recreated Große Freiheit street as it looked in the 1960s, when the Beatles played there regularly. Walking through the replica gave visitors a sense of what the neighborhood felt like at the time.

The museum is no longer open, so it is worth checking in advance if any related exhibition or event has taken its place in the area. Those interested in the Beatles' time in Hamburg can still find traces of that period in the streets around the Reeperbahn.

About 150,000 visitors saw the exhibition before its closure was announced, and the exhibits were afterwards returned to their collectors and lenders. The privately run museum shut on 30 June 2012 for economic reasons. In summer 2020 the Sankt-Pauli-Museum opened at the same address, showed Beatles items among its exhibits, and filed for insolvency that October.