The Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf is a Düsseldorf museum dedicated to the history of the city. It preserves a collection of everyday and artistic objects related to the city, covering a time span that goes from the Stone Age to the end of the 18th century. Founded in 1874 as a historical museum by the city council, the impetus for the founding of the museum was the donation of oil paintings from the estate of the Earl of Stutterheim in October 1873.

The main focus of the collection is on the historically significant era of the United Duchies of Jülich-Kleve-Berg (16th and 17th centuries) and the reign of the Dukes of Jülich-Berg of the Palatinate-Neuburg family (17th to 18th century). The holdings include archaeological finds, paintings, graphics, sculptures, objects of applied art, furniture, archival materials and numerous engravings which also provide important sources of 16th-century topographical images, with views of the Rhine facade of Düsseldorf. Among the high-level objects prior to these centuries, particularly valuable is a letter from the knight Arnold von Harff to his hostess Sybille von Jülich, dated 1498, to which a pilgrimage ring from Jerusalem is attached.

The 19th century collection marks the French occupation of the city from 1795 and the industrial and commercial exhibition for the Rhineland, Westphalia and neighboring districts in 1902. In the long 19th century, Düsseldorf experienced a huge development, from a small marginal residential city to a modern industrial city . The focus of the collection is on Napoleon Bonaparte, with portraits, mementos of his visit to Düsseldorf and his caricatures. The path then continues with the collection relating to the nineteenth century and with an important photographic collection.