[1] The first contacts between the two countries can be traced back to the 17th century, when the physician and explorer Engelbert Kaempfer visited Muscat in 1688 and later described the city in his travelogues.

These groups included Frankfurter Oman-Hilfe and the Solidarity Committee for Support of the Arab Liberation Movement.

In 1979, former Nazi Gauleiter Hartmann Lauterbacher became an advisor to Sultan Qaboos bin Said on youth affairs.

[1] The German-Omani Society, founded in 1993, serves to promote bilateral cultural relations.

In Muscat, the Goethe-Institut offers language courses and conducts cultural work from its regional center in Abu Dhabi.