Everything you always wanted to know about the history of Kassel in the course of the centuries

The museum of Kassel was established in 1979 and documents the city’s history from its first documentary mention in the year 913. The focal point of the permanent exhibition is on the development of the city between the 18th and 20th century.
Several scale models display the city’s enlargement after the fall of the battlement in the 18th century. A separate section documents the alternating change of the resplendent residence of the Hessian landgraves, electors, kings and emperors to an industrial centre with textile production and construction of locomotives and wagons in the 19th century.
In front of the visitor comes the city around 1900, the Wilhelminian enlargement of the area and the up to the bombardment in WW II existing medieval old town to life.
The city’s fate in the first part of the 20th century with WW I and II, inflation and National Socialism is well documented with the museum’s large stock as well as with impressive staging with audiovisual media involved. The permanent exhibition ends with the reconstruction and the city’s new presentation with the Federal Horticultural Show (Bundesgartenschau) and the first documenta 1955.
Separate audioguides are available for the permanent exhibition.

More information on the website of the museum: www.stadtmuseum-kassel.de

information

Stadtmuseum Kassel:
Ständeplatz 16
34117 Kassel
tel: +49(0)561.787-4105
fax: +49(0)561.787-4102
stadtmuseum@stadt-kassel.de
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