What to do and see in , North Rhine-Westphalia: The Best History Museums

The Lippe Museum is the largest and oldest regional museum of East Westphalia-Lippe and is located in the heart of Detmold, opposite the Detmold Castle of the Princes of Lippe. Established in 1835 as Natural History Museum, it evolved until today to a grand collection Lippe and except Lippe cultural assets in the fields of natural history, prehistory and early history, regional history, folklore, art, furniture and interior design and ethnography.

The immensely heavy wheels in the factory grind the sticky material on their noisy rounds and press the clay through the iron grates. Every second a new unbaked brick is cut out of the endless wet mass emerging from the brick presses. On production days in Lage, the fires are blazing in the ring kilns and the machines are working to full capacity. The core of the museum is devoted to the historic factory building – once the Beermann Brickworks – on the edge of the town of Lage. The site was mechanised in 1922 but originally bricks were produced here by hand. In the exhibition areas visitors can learn more about the brick-making history and the lives of the migratory brick workers and their families in and around the Lippe region.

Erleben Sie die Geschichte der 1248 gegründeten Stadt Horn und der Burg Horn in den neugestalteten Räumen. Besteigen Sie zu den Öffnungszeiten den Burgturm, werfen Sie einen Blick über die Galerie in den Rittersaal.

Am südlichen Ortseingang der historischen Altstadt befeindet sich auf der Hinteren Straße 86 das Lügder Heimatmuseum. Das Vierständer-Fachwerkhaus wurde 1799 errichtet.Zwei Jahre zuvor war hier am 17. September 1797 der größte Stadtbrand ausgebrochen, bei dem mehr als 240 Häuser zerstört wurden. Seit 1987 befindet sich das Heimatmuseum in diesem geschichtsträchtigen Haus.