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Buddenbrook-House The main scene of action of Thomas Mann's Nobel prize winning novel "Buddenbrooks" is Lübeck. Although the name of the "mediocre trading centre on the Baltic Sea" is never mentioned in the novel, there is not one street, square or place in this novel's city that does not allow itself to be identified in Lübeck. The house at Mengstraße 4 is at the heart of this novel. Exactly on this floor and behind these very windows where the Mann family lived in the middle of the 19th century there is an exhibit about a fictitious family that sits- as described by Thomas Mann - opposite St. Mary's Church in a "landscape room" and a "dining room" with white figures of gods and goddesses. The museum wants to provide visitors with an entirely different literary experience. Both permanent exhibitions "The Manns - a literary family" and "Buddenbrooks - Novel of the Century" are complemented by further literary exhibits and literary and cultural events. For further information on guided tours, special exhibitions and the latest calendar of events please visit the museum's web site. Mengstr. 4 D-23552 Lübeck +49 451 122 41 90 www.buddenbrookhaus.de opening hours: January - March : daily 11.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m. April - December: daily 10.00 a.m. - 6.00 p.m. Günter-Grass-House Crossroads forum where literature and the visual arts meet
The permanent exhibition presents the Nobel laureate's visual art and shows the close links between his literary production is with his artwork. Temporary exhibitions display other "double gifts" in addition to Grass's work in the visual arts, literature and music.
The house also has a garden with Grass sculptures, an archive, a library, a shop and a café. Kulturstiftung Hansestadt Lübeck Günter-Grass-Haus Glockengießerstraße 21 D-23552 Lübeck phone: +49 451 122 42 30 e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it opening hours: museum: January - March: Tuesday-Sunday 11 a.m.-5 p.m. April - December: daily 10.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m. Willy-Brandt-House Lübeck
In its permanent exhibition the Willy-Brandt-House Lübeck presents the life and legacy of the Federal Chancellor, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and son of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck. You can explore the 20th century by following his trail through seven rooms, from the Weimar Republic to the reunification of Germany. Besides his biography the exhibition focuses on the topics of democracy, human rights and peace.
opening hours: January - March: Tuesday - Sunday: 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. April - December - Monday - Sunday: 11 a.m.- 6 p.m. admission is free Address: Königstr. 21 D-23552 Lübeck www.willy-brandt-luebeck.de St. Anne's Museum
The museum is located in a former Augustinian convent from the early 16th century and is host to Germany's most significant collection of ecclesiastical art and late-medieval carved altarpieces of German origin. The collection is completed by sacral works of Dutch painting from the 15th and 16th centuries, the outstanding example of which is the famed Passion Altar sculpted by Hans Memling in 1491. The department also displays an exquisite collection of liturgical garments and tools from the Middle Ages.
On the first floor the visitor finds an exhibition of home décor. The museum shows in several differently furnished rooms how the citizens of the Hanseatic city lived during the centuries from the Middle Ages until around 1800. Antique furniture of exquisite quality, showpieces of glasses and magnificent silver, porcelain and faience are reminders of the wealth and the taste of the citizens of Lübeck, the "Queen of the Hanseatic League". The museum also houses an exhibition of toys.
The museum regularly organises special exhibitions related to various topics of arts and cultural history. The St. Anne's Museum - like four other museums in Lübeck - belongs to the Museum of art and cultural history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.
St.-Annen-Str. 15 D-23552 Lübeck phone: +49 451 122 41 37 e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it opening hours: January - March : 11.00 a.m. - 17.00 p.m. April - December: Tuesday - Sunday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Culture Forum Castle Monastery
The castle monastery which was founded in 1229 in Lübeck is the most important medieval monastery in northern Germany. After the Reformation it was used as a poorhouse until the end of the 19th century, when it was converted to a courthouse and remand prison. During the "Third Reich" period, the building complex witnessed nazi injustice, because Jews and members of the resistance labour movement were imprisoned here and the "Christenprozess" took place in the building in 1943, leading to the death of four clergymen. The Castle monastery is thus a monument from the Middle Ages as well as reflecting recent history. Since its restoration by the regional state of Schleswig-Holstein it is a place for analysing arts and architecture, the history of the Hanseatic League and the Baltic region, contemporary history and philosophy.
The restored monastery of Domincans from the 13th - 16th centuries with its significant mural paintings and the courthouse and remand prison from the 19th century are open to the public.
In addition to the two permanent exhibitions " Pepper and cloth for Mark and Dukaten - the coin treasure of a Hanseatic merchant" and " ... gone like a shadow - aspects of Jewish life in Lübeck" the museum regularly organises various exhibitions relating to art, cultural history, archaeology and temporary history. The Cultural Forum Castle Monastery is also used as a cultural centre housing seminars, readings, musical and theatrical events. Hinter der Burg 2-4 D-23552 Lübeck phone: +49 451 122 41 95 e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it opening hours: January - March: Tuesday - Sunday: 11.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m. April - December: Tuesday - Sunday 10.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m. Museum Behn House/ Drägerhouse The two magnificent neighbouring merchants' houses from the 18th century with their almost palatial character are nowadays home to Lübeck's art collection from the 19th and 20th centuries. The Behn House with the largest and most impressive hall in Lübeck and the rooms in its wing building in the style of classicism is evaluated as one of the most beautiful merchants' houses in Northern Germany; the Drägerhouse features the only remaining 18th-century festival suite in Lübeck. The main exhibits of the collection of paintings are the works of Johann Friedrich Overbeck und Gotthard Kuehl, paintings from Romanticism among others of Caspar David Friedrich, Carl Blechen, Carl Gustav Carus and works of Max Liebermann, Max Slevogt, Lovis Corinth and Edvard Munch. The collection of classic modern art exhibits works of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Max Pechstein and Ernst Beckmann. Representatives of contemporary art are Schumacher, Dahmen, Neumann, Knaupp, Armand, Hoehme. The museum also shows sculptures from the 20th century. (The contemporary is presented at St. Anne's Art Museum, St. Annenstr. 15.) In addition to the collection of art the museum exhibits interior decoration from the time around 1800 and from the Biedermeier period and also arts and crafts from the 19th and 20th centuries. Königstraße 9 - 11 D-23552 Lübeck phone: +49 451 122 41 48 e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it opening hours: January - March: Tuesday - Sunday 11.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m. April - December : 10.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m. (On Mondays closed, every 1st Thursday of a month opened until 9.00 p.m.) Museum for natural history and the environment On three floors the museum for natural history and the environment offers exciting information about the history of flora and fauna in Schleswig Holstein and the many different species living in this region. The museum also organises specific exhibitions dedicated to different topics.
Travel through time and pay a visit to bygone epochs of the earth, when this region was still covered by sea water. The early history of the land between the North and the Baltic Sea is reflected through an interesting collection of fossils, minerals, models and maps.
Undoubtedly the skeleton of the Pampau whale which was stranded here 10 million years ago is the most prominent exhibit.
Other highlights of the exhibition are various examples of biosphere presenting animals in the typical landscape of our home region.
There are amphibians, reptiles and fish and different invertebrates shown in aquariums and terrariums. A single room is dedicated to insects, living bees could be seen in a special room. In a glass beehive you can see the bees doing their daily work. And Lübeck's "bees' dance clock" helps you to translate the bees' language. To understand nature and to have fun with teaching this subject were the main aims of the Lübeck physician Johann Julius Walbaum, whose estate formed the basis of Lübeck's Museum for natural history in 1799. Musterbahn 8 D-23552 Lübeck Administration: Mühlendamm 1-3, 23552 Lübeck phone: +49 (0)451/ 1 22 41 22 fax: +49 (0)451/ 1 22 41 99 e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it www.museen.luebeck.de opening hours: April – September: Tuesday - Friday 9.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 10.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m. October – March: Tuesday - Friday 9.00 a.m. - 4.00 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 10.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m. Info on the museums mentioned above: www.die-luebecker-museen.de Walbaum Cafe inside the museum for natural history and the environment phone: +49 (0)451/ 3 97 36 27 Puppet Theatre Museum (Collection of Fritz Fey jun.) Five historic half-timbered houses (corner of Kleine Petersgrube) have been connected to form one of the world's largest collections of puppets, stages, props, graphics, posters and barrel organs from the past three centuries from all corners of the world. Next door is the Lübeck Marionette Theatre with a programme that rotates on a daily basis (Kolk 20, Phone: +49 (0)451 70060). Kolk 16 D-23552 Lübeck phone: +49 (0)451/7 86 26 November - March: Tuesday - Sunday: 11 a.m.- 5 p.m. April - October: Monday - Sunday: 11 a.m.- 6 p.m. For further information please visit: www.tfm-luebeck.de Industrial museum Herrenwyk When the blast furnace in Lübeck went bankrupt in 1981, an important period of Lübeck's industrial history came to an end. For 74 years the three blast furnaces dominated the silhouette of the bank of the river Trave - a silhouette you presume to find in Germany's famous industrial region the Ruhr area. A permanent exhibition "Life and work in the industrial suburb of Herrenwyk" in the former store of the factory on the outskirts of the workers' residential area, which was erected in 1906/1907, is open to the public. Different scenes display the working and living conditions during twenties and thirties of the 20th century.
Besides the exhibitions on industrial history in Elmshorn, Kiel and Neumünster the industrial museum in Herrenwyk is one of the very few museums of its kind in Schleswig-Holstein.
Another permanent exhibition bearing the title "I only remember tears and grief..." is dedicated to the people, who were forced to work in Lübeck from 1939 until 1945. In addition to this the museum shows special rotating exhibitions of industrial, social, technical and contemporary history. The house also presents events on industrial and contemporary history. Further information can be found hier. Kokerstraße 1-3 D-23569 Lübeck phone and fax: +49 (0)451/ 122 42 45 / 30 11 52 opening hours: Fridays 2.00 p.m. – 5.00 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays 10.00 a.m. – 5.00 p.m. |