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Muzikinstumente
This cosy little museum is home to 1500 musical instruments from all over the world, all of them collected by one family of music teachers. The son of the family, Askold zum Eck, can play them all and will happily demonstrate for hours. Visitors are allowed to play one or two.
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Kühlungsborn
Kühlungsborn, the biggest Baltic Sea resort, with some 7500 inhabitants, has some lovely art deco buildings backing the beach and adjoining a dense 130-hectare forest. The east and west ends of the sand are linked by the Ostseeallee promenade, lined with hotels and restaurants.
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Hafenmuseum Speicher XI
This former harbour warehouse has a strong permanent exhibition focusing on Bremen’s waterside history and the workers who have made it happen, including a section on forced labourers during WWII. Special exhibitions elaborate on the waterside theme. Take bus 26 to Speicher XI.
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Belvedere auf dem Klausberg
Frederick the Greats final building project was this temple-like Belvedere, modelled on Neros palace in Rome. The panorama of park, lakes and Potsdam is predictably fabulous from up here. The upstairs hall has an impressive frescoed dome, oak parquet and fanciful stucco marble.
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Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
The neoclassical-meets-contemporary Staatsgalerie bears British architect James Stirling’s curvy, colourful imprint. Alongside big-name exhibitions, the gallery harbours a representative collection of European art from the 14th to the 21st centuries as well as American post-WWII av
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Atta
The main attraction of Attendorn, a typical Sauerland town on the northern shore of the Biggesee, is the Atta-Höhle , one of Germanys largest and most impressive caves. The tour takes you past a subterranean lake and stalagmites and stalactites shaped into curtains, domes, columns
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Antiquarium
The famous Antiquarium is a barrel-vaulted hall smothered in frescoes and built to house the Wittelsbachs enormous antique collection. This leads to the Schlachtensäle (Battle Halls) decorated with scenes from the Napoleonic campaigns, some of which King Ludwig II himself participa
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Schloss Charlottenhof
Originally a baroque country manor, this small palace was enlarged by Karl Friedrich Schinkel for Friedrich Wilhelm IV in the late 1820s. The building is modelled on classical Roman villas and features a Doric portico and a bronze fountain. Peter Joseph Lenné designed the pretty ga
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Mathematisch
This wonderful collection of scientific implements dating from the early 16th century on will delight anyone interested in the history of science and the Enlightenment, with its telescopes, barometers and dozens of other early instruments. A free audioguide puts the collection into
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Museum Starnberger See
You may have to duck your head when touring this 400-year-old farmhouse that offers a glimpse of life on the lake as it once was. It also boasts a precious Ignaz Günther sculpture in the little chapel. The modern extension showcases a fancy royal barge and a section on its construc
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Grosse Kunstschau
Designed by Bernhard Hoetger in 1927, this exhibition space is part art deco and part tepee, with a round skylight that complements the wooden floors. Its permanent exhibition is a who’s who of the artists’ colony, but there is also a regularly changing exhibition included in the a
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Goethe Stadtmuseum im Amtshaus
The Goethe Stadtmuseum im Amtshaus chronicles Johann Wolfgang von Goethe efforts in the very 1st-floor rooms where he once had his offices. Theres also a much-photographed statue of the man in front of the building, which also happens to be the starting point of the famous Goethewa
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Berger Strasse
Lively, youthful Berger Strasse, Frankfurt’s longest street, is the commercial heart of both Nordend and Bornheim. Well-off but not stuffy, it’s lined with eateries, cafes, wine bars, pubs and shops, and is ideal for a leisurely, well-irrigated stroll. The U4 U-Bahn line runs under
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Stift Neuzelle
This monastery complex is considered the northernmost example of baroque architecture in Europe and is nicknamed ‘Brandenburg’s baroque miracle’. A custom-built subterranean museum displays two restored scenes from an 18th-century carved Passion Cycle rediscovered in a church attic
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Russian Orthodox Chapel
Mathildenhöhe’s western slope is graced by the three golden onion domes of a mosaic-adorned Russian Orthodox chapel. It was built from 1897 to 1899 for the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II, who married a local gal, Princess Alix von Hessen (Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig’s younger sister),
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Schnoor
This maze of narrow, winding alleys was once the fishermens quarter and later a red-light district. Now its dolls house–sized cottages contain boutiques, restaurants, cafes and galleries. Though tourist-geared, there are some lovely corners to explore around here on a leisurely amb
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Schloss Güstrow
Güstrows fabulous Renaissance 16th-century Schloss is home to an historical museum as well as a cultural centre, period art exhibitions and occasional concerts. You can tour rooms that recall the luxe excesses of its royal residents. The formal gardens are an exercise in orderly fl
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Kulturhistorisches Museum Franziskanerkloster
The star exhibit at this museum is the 1573 Kleines Zittauer Fastentuch (Small Zittau Lenten Veil), which depicts the crucifixion scene framed by 40 symbols of the Passion of Christ, and is one of only seven such veils that have survived. The rest of the museum chronicles regional
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St Annenkirche
While district vicar, Martin Luther stayed in the apartments of the St Annenkirche, 10 minutes west of the Markt in the hills above Eisleben. This church also features a stunning Steinbilder-Bibel (stone-picture bible; 1585), the only one of its kind in Europe, and a wittily decora
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Panorama
Feel like a coal miner as you climb dozens of steps up from the Ruhr Museum to the summit of the coal-washing building, where a large viewing platform lets you ponder the vast scope of Zollverein, with the Ruhrgebiet as a backdrop. Theres also a multimedia presentation on industria
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