Location: Heidelberg
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The 10 Best Museums in Heidelberg, Baden-Wurttemberg
Home to the oldest university in Germany, Heidelberg was hit hard during 17th-century wars and rebuilt in the 18th century with baroque buildings. For a pleasant walk, stroll through the historic city center's Gothic streets. Be sure to take in Heidelberg Castle, the symbolic heart of the city; Alte Brucke, a beautiful 18th-century bridge; and the Student Jail. Built as long ago as the 16th century, it was used to keep mischievous students off the streets for three days to a month at a time. And they say Penn State is the number-one party school!
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1. Alte Universitaet
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4.5 based on 232 reviews
Founded in 1368, this famous university is one of Germany's oldest and most prestigious.
Reviewed By tawv - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Heidelberg University is one of the oldest in Germany (est. 1385). Especially worthwhile are the Great Hall and the spectacular library next door.
2. German Pharmacy Museum
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4.5 based on 1,005 reviews
This intriguing museum with its exceptional collection explores the history of pharmacy. It is located in the beautiful place of Heidelberg castle.
Reviewed By Mairwen1
This is included in your castle ticket and although it seems an odd museum to have here, it really is worthwhile. Whilst it might not strike you as the most interesting sounding museum in the world, I found it unexpectedly fascinating. The main feature is a display of several 18th and 19th century apothecary/pharmacy shops. These are real shops that have been moved here. One is from a Benedictine abbey (1720s), another from the royal court in Bamberg (1730s) and another from the city of Ulm, (1812). I particularly liked the collections of decorative drawers, bottles and beautiful jars - so colourful and such a contrast to today’s sterile chemist shops and hospitals. They looked almost Harry Potter like. You can easily imagine that each little jar or bottle could have something precious or magical in it. Keep an eye out for the crocodile and the porcupine fish too. If you’re interested in the history or science of medicine, the museum traces the development of pharmacy from the days of superstition and alchemy through to the development of a scientific discipline with standards and regulations. It also traces important moments like the discovery of penicillin, quinine, salvarsan. Most intriguing were the specimen rooms. Unfortunately, there is almost no English signs or labels in these rooms which meant we had to resort to guessing what some of the treatments were & what they were supposed to cure. This was probably more fun anyway. Among the specimens were narwhal tusk, snake venom, an odd fish with legs, a toad and something that definitely looked like excrement. It’s only a fairly small museum and I’m very pleased that we didn't overlook it. We probably would have had it not been included in the ticket.
3. Antikenmuseum mit Abguss-Sammlung
4. Dokumentations - Und Kulturzentrum der Deutschen Sinti und Roma
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4.5 based on 16 reviews
Permanent exhibition on the National Socialist genocide against the Sinti and Roma at the Documentation and Cultural Centre for German Sinti and Roma in Heidelberg: The documentation, which is displayed on three levels and covers a total area of almost 700 square meters, traces the history of the persecution of the Sinti and Roma under National Socialism. The narrative starts with their gradual exclusion from society, showing how the state deprived them of their rights before proceeding with their systematic extermination in Nazi-occupied Europe. The exhibition takes a close look at the genocide on Sinti and Roma: an unparalleled crime against humanity that was conducted on a scale still unimaginable today.
5. Sammlung Prinzhorn
6. Friedrich Ebert Memorial (Gedenkstatte)
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4.5 based on 61 reviews
7. Carl Bosch Museum
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4.5 based on 8 reviews
The technical historical museum in Heidelberg offers exciting insights on the life and discoveries of Heidelberg's Nobel Prize winner Carl Bosch (1874-1940). The museum opened its doors in May 1998 in the original garage-house which served as the residence of Carl Bosch's driver, and, of course, as a garage for his automobiles - the vintage brands Horch and Maybach. Presented within a space of 300m² and two outdoor courtyards, the museum displays the most interesting and exciting highlights in the life of Carl Bosch. The exhibition is arranged into eight sections distributed over both museum floors and an outside courtyard. The topics range from the development of chemical engineering to IG Farben's role during the Third Reich. The exhibition demonstrates the development of high-pressure technology from its beginnings in the laboratory to the creation of huge industrial complexes, and documents their political and economical effects as well.
8. Museum of the Palatinate (Kurpfalzisches Museum) and restaurant
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4.0 based on 147 reviews
Reviewed By 581edh - Westchester County, United States
Located right on the Hauptstrasse, this museum is an eclectic collection of interesting objects. Beautiful china and furnishings to local archeological finds.
9. Museum Haus Cajeth
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4.0 based on 7 reviews
The Haus Cajeth has been a museum with pictures by unknown painters since 1982. Here, under the term "Primitive Art in the 20th Century", a unique collection of images that are not from professional artists is exhibited. The painters of these pictures never went to schools or academies, they work without models. Her works cannot be assigned to any style. Egon Hassbecker collected a unique collection of pictures during this time. The Museum Haus Cajeth is located in Heidelberg between the Prinzhorn Collection and the Ethnographic Museum.
10. KORPERWELTEN Museum – Anatomie des Glucks
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4.0 based on 73 reviews
On track to happiness! Whether it's great love, a carefree life or true friendship... we encounter happiness in various ways, but still never quite by accident. When do we feel happiness? What happens to our body? Why can't we keep it forever? Plastinator Dr. Gunther von Hagens and curator Dr. Angelina Whalley pursue these and other questions in the BODY WORLDS Museum at the Altes Hallenbad in Heidelberg. The permanent exhibition is not only devoted to human anatomy, its organ functions and questions about health, but also the Anatomy of Happiness. Around 200 unique exhibits and accompanying interactive stations, where YOU can get on track to your happiness, reveal the wonderful complexity of your inner body and will inspire your sensibility to your own body and happiness.
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