Muzeum Cheb, Regional museum in Cheb, Czech Republic

Muzeum Cheb is a regional museum that presents archaeological finds, natural history materials, crafts, and artworks from different periods of the Cheb area. The collections span across centuries and show how the region developed over time.

The museum grew from a collection begun in 1869 by archivist Georg Schmidt in two rear first-floor rooms of the Pachelbel House. The city council decided to found the museum on 27 January 1873, and it opened to the public on 15 May 1874. A fire damaged part of the exhibition in January 1907, after which curator Karl Siegl had the roughly 3,300 objects inventoried.

The museum's name comes from the Pachelbel family, who owned the house in the 1620s; mayor Wolf Adam Pachelbel was expelled during the re-Catholicisation of Cheb. Its collections include some 1,500 rural costumes, tools, glasses and pictures bequeathed by the town doctor Michael Müller in 1927, and an outpost in a timber-framed farmhouse in Milíkov shows country life from the 19th century onward.

The building is located on King George of Poděbrady Square in the city center and offers guided tours in several languages. Visitors with research interests can also access the archives to study materials in depth.

In the room where Albrecht von Wallenstein was killed on 25 February 1634, the museum displays his stuffed horse, said to be the oldest taxidermy mount in Bohemia. A twenty-minute Wallenstein circuit opened in May 2004 links the death room, his personal objects and the portrait gallery.