Museums in Lübeck

Marzipan-Salon

The sweet treat marzipan definitely is a Lübeck speciality. In late 1999, the famous marzipan confectioner Niederegger opened the Marzipan Salon at his main branch in Lübeck´s pedestrian precinct. There is no admission fee, and you can learn a lot about the history and the making of marzipan. A video and many exhibits take the visitors into the world of sweets. As a special feature, you can admire marzipan figures in a size of a man. They show people who had a sweet passion-e.g. Karl IV who was not only a Roman-German emperor, but also a marzipan lover.

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tel.:	+49 451 5301126
email:	info@niederegger.de
address:	Breite Straße 89,Altstadt
url:	www.niederegger.de
openings:	9am-7pm Mon-Fri; 9am-6pm Sat; 10am-6pm Sun

Budenbrooks House

Sometimes reality follows fiction. The house with the white Baroque facade has of course never been the home of the Buddenbrooks, as they were a product of Thomas Mann's literary imagination. Nevertheless, the building is known by their name today. This might be absolutely justified, since the fictitious Buddenbrook family had more than a few characteristics in commone with the Manns. And the Manns really did live here - Thomas Mann described the place of his youth in his novel 'Buddenbrooks’.

Today, the house is nothing but a stylish piece of scenery. The original palais more..

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tel.:	+49 451 122 41 42
email:	info@buddenbrookhaus.de
address:	Mengstraße 4, Altstadt
url:	www.buddenbrookhaus.de
openings:	10am-6pm Sat-Thu; 10am-9pm Fri
admission:	8 DM . Guided tours Fridays 7pm and Saturdays 2pm. Admission to these costs 15 DM.

Puppet Theatre Museum – Puppentheater-Museum

The museum is sightly hidden in one of the narrow Old Town alleys near St. Petri church and the Holstentor. It has one of the world´s largest and most impressive collections of puppets and puppet theatre equipment within its walls. The exhibition is spread over three historic buildings and displays artistically hand-made marionettes, glove puppets, props, stages, posters and shadow theatre figures, which date from the 18th and 19th centuries. Barrel organs are also on display here. The more than 1000 exhibits have been collected from all over the world.

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tel.:	+49 45 17 86 26
gettingthere:	Holstenstraße: Bus 10
address:	Kleine Petersgrube 4-5 / Kolk 16, Altstadtinsel
openings:	10am-6pm daily
admission:	adults DM 6, students DM 5, children DM 3

St. Annen-Museum

The nuns of St. Augustine became victims of the Reformation. In 1531, the cloister was expropriated by the city council and henceforth used for profane purposes such as a poorhouse and prison. Large parts of the complex were destroyed in a fire in 1843, including the cloister's church. Nevertheless parts of the building in late gothic style have remained, serving as a museum for medieval ecclesiastical art. The collection is extraordinary prominent in quality and extent. Numerous gothic altars and church statues are displayed here, as well as completely furnished rooms of old more..

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tel.:	+49 451 122 41 37

The Lubeck Coin Treasure-Der große Lübecker Münzschatz

When the house 'An der Obertrave 16’ was torn down in 1984, an excavator dug up a strange something covered in verdigris. He couldn´t have guessed that it was a real treasure ' 24,000 gold and silver coins which were hidden here for 450 years. In a unique exhibition at the Burgkloster vaults the great Lübeck 'Münzschatz”(coin treasure) and its history are displayed as a story on a merchant's products and money. It deals with the three categories of money, the trade of the Hanseatic League and the coins. So if you are interested in the reason why the 'Groschen’ is called more..

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tel.:	+49 451 122 41 95
address:	Hinter der Burg 2-4
openings:	10am-5pm Tue-Sun (April-September); 10am-4pm Tue-Sun (October-March)

Museumskirche St. Katharinen

It's obvious to everyone that the steeple of St. Katharine's is missing. It is in fact not really missing, but was simply never plannedm out of modesty, for St. Katharine's was the cloister church of Lübeck's Franciscans, and their order demanded humility and modesty. A steeple was regarded as idle decoration.

The choir was finished as early as 1300, while the main nave was built from 1335 to 1358. Funding was not a problem, since in the time of the Black Death the Franciscans particularly were getting huge contributions by wealthy Lübeckers who were worried about their more..

Ethnological Museum - Zeughaus / Völkerkundesammlung

The stretched building in the cathedral's shadow has seen a past full of changes and different functions. Built in 1594, it got an impressive Renaissance face, yet it was only meant to serve as the municipal grain warehouse. Later it became the weaponry for the municipal military, or Zeughaus. After that, wool was stored here, and since the beginning of the 20th century it was the headquarters of police. Today, the building is home to a collection of ethnology articles, consisting of more than 25,000 items from non-European cultures

Behn and Draeger House

The Behn House and Dräger House are jewels with their faces showing the cool, yet stylish elegance of the late 18th century, and which appear so different from the austere brick faces of the old patrician residences. But the treasures are hidden inside the buildings - an extensive collection of paintings and sculptures from the 19th and 20th centuries can be seen here, and the collection is always being augmented by new items. And there are also historic rooms, demonstrating the living culture of wealthy Lübeck citizens around 1800 with original furniture. Also included among more..

Holstentor Museum

In spite of its bulky appearance the town gate, completed in 1477, was no real fortification building. In fact it was meant to be an impressive symbol of the city's wealth and independence. The gate's front side with its massive walls and narrow embrasures stands for the permanent readiness for defence while the town side shows a face of sophisticated splendid artwork and many gothic windows. Today, the Holstentor is the main landmark of Lübeck and home of the museum of municipal history. Among the items displayed in the exhibition are antique weapons and armour as well as ship more..