State museum on Brüder-Grimm-Platz covering 300,000 years of North Hessian history, the landgraves' decorative arts and a tower you can climb.
4. september 2026 – 11. april 2027
Cabinet exhibition of historic microscopes from the Astronomisch-Physikalisches Kabinett, collected mainly under Landgrave Carl. Research stations and workshops invite visitors to try microscopy themselves.
The Hessisches Landesmuseum (Hessian State Museum) was created to bring together in one place the previously scattered prehistoric and early historic, decorative arts and folk culture holdings of the Kassel collections. The building was designed by Munich architect Theodor Fischer and opened on August 23, 1913, for the city of Kassel's millennium celebrations. It combines forms of Hessian late Renaissance architecture with Art Nouveau (Jugendstil), and its tower, visible from afar, still dominates Brüder-Grimm-Platz today.
During World War II, the building suffered relatively little damage, while the surrounding city center was largely destroyed. In the postwar years it therefore also served as temporary quarters for other institutions, such as the Gemäldegalerie (painting gallery). With the reconstruction of the Neue Galerie and Wilhelmshöhe Palace, the Kassel collections were redistributed in the 1970s; from 1976 to 2008 the building also housed the German Wallpaper Museum (Deutsches Tapetenmuseum).
From 2008, the museum was extensively renovated and redesigned, reopening at the end of 2016. Since then, it has told the history of North Hesse on three levels: on the first floor, archaeological finds from the Paleolithic to the early Middle Ages; above that, decorative arts from seven centuries of the landgraves' passion for collecting; and on the top floor, everyday life in the region from around 1800 to the present. Cabinet exhibitions and events in the historic lecture hall round out the program. The museum is part of Hessen Kassel Heritage, the state's museum and palace administration in and around Kassel.
| Voksne | 8 € |
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| Nedsat pris | 5 €University students, apprentices, guest auditors at the University of Kassel, people with severe disabilities (disability rating of 50 or more), volunteer service and voluntary military service participants, unemployed people/Bürgergeld recipients and Teilhabecard holders, groups of 10 or more, and holders of cards including the KasselCard, artcard, KurKulturCard/Vitalpass, Ehrenamtscard (volunteer card), Juleica, NVV annual pass and NVV JobTicket; also when visiting a second HKH site on the same day |
| Børn og unge | gratisgratis til og med 17 år · Children and young people up to age 18 and school students free. |
| Pensionister | –No separate senior discount listed. |
| Personer med handicap | 5 €ledsager gratis · Reduced rate with a disability rating of 50 or more. |
| Studerende og elever | 5 €University of Kassel students free. |
| Grupper (fra 10 pers.) | 5 € pr. personReduced rate for groups; children's and youth groups including 2 accompanying adults free. |
| Familier | –No family ticket; children under 18 free, and with the FamilienApp Hessen parents get in free too. |
| Hessen Kassel Heritage annual pass | 60 €Valid for all sites, including the planetarium. |
Free admission also for, among others, refugees, ICOM/Museumsbund members, members of the Museumsverein Kassel and holders of Meine Card+/Auszeit Card+.
Baby changing table available. Due to construction work on Brüder-Grimm-Platz, access may be restricted; the museum ticket desk can advise on a safe route.
Velegnet til børn og familier
| Entré for børn | gratis til og med 17 år |
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Free explorer tour (museum scavenger hunt, approx. 2 hours) for children and families, available at the ticket desk or as a download; workshops for children according to the events calendar.
Rathaus
Tram/RegioTram to Rathaus or Rathaus/Fünffensterstraße, then a few minutes on foot to Brüder-Grimm-Platz.
According to Hessen Kassel Heritage, museum shops exist only at the Wilhelmshöhe and Herkules visitor centers; no café in the building is mentioned.
The museum's historic lecture hall is used for lectures and conferences; inquiries about external events to externe-veranstaltungen@heritage-kassel.de.
| Rundvisninger | ja |
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| Tilbud til skoler | ja |
| Fotografering | Photography for private purposes is permitted without flash; commercial or editorial photography only with written permission. |
| Godt at vide | Guided tours, group and school programs through the visitor service (+49 561 31680-123, service@heritage-kassel.de). Routes to selected objects in the free "100 Meisterwerke" (100 Masterpieces) app. |
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