Historisches Museum Aurich, Regional history museum in Aurich, Germany

The Historisches Museum Aurich is housed in the Alte Kanzlei, a former administrative building in Aurich's old town. Since 1985 it has occupied about 190 square metres there, and after expansions in 1992–1998 and 2001 it now has 540 square metres of exhibition space. Its permanent display is arranged in six thematic sections, from Geest und Stadt to Region und Mittelzentrum, covering the history of the town and East Frisia from the Stone Age to the present.

The museum was created in the 1980s when local citizens joined together to restore the historic building and establish a collection. This effort made it possible to gather important objects from regional history in one place.

The six permanent sections carry names rooted in the region's own vocabulary, such as Geest und Stadt, Kirchen und Klöster and Blütezeit der Bürger. One section is devoted to Conrad Bernhard Meyer, a builder who shaped Aurich's townscape. The ground floor of the annex holds the MachMit-Museum, where visitors handle things themselves.

The museum opens several days each week and is easy to reach from the town center. Plan enough time to look through the different sections at a comfortable pace, since each one covers different aspects of local history.

The museum opened on 5 July 1985 in the Alte Kanzlei, a building the city had converted from 1983 onward; the opening was performed by Johann-Tönjes Cassens, then Lower Saxony's minister for science and culture. A support association founded in 1982 under district director Friedrich Schuver, with all council parties on its board, pushed the project through after earlier attempts in 1902, 1923 and 1951 had failed.