Town and regional museum in Korbach's old town with fossils from the Korbacher Spalte, gold mining on the Eisenberg and Hanseatic history.
26. september 2026 – 1. november 2026
Marking an anniversary, the exhibition presents the GrenzWelten National Geopark between the Sauerland and the Kasseler Berge with its sites and landscapes. It includes a traveling exhibition on all of Germany's geoparks.
The museum's core is the antiquities collection of the Korbach bookbinder Carl Nelle, who began assembling his pieces in 1876 and handed them over to the town in 1924. Korbach then set up a local history museum in 1925, supported by the Bürgerverein St. Kilian, which still acts as its friends' association today. It was housed in a Gothic stone house from the 14th century next to St. Kilian's Church, originally used as a storehouse and converted into a residence in the 16th century.
As the collection grew, three neighboring half-timbered houses from the 18th and 19th centuries were added in 1934 and in the postwar period. Between 1994 and 1997, the Kassel architect Berthold Penkhues added a new building with a shell limestone facade to the ensemble; a glass-roofed atrium connects old and new. The project received several architecture and museum awards, including a special prize of the Deutscher Städtebaupreis (German Urban Design Award) in 1999. Since 2004 the museum has borne the name of former mayor Wolfgang F. Bonhage, who had driven the expansion.
On around 1,700 square meters, the permanent exhibition tells of the town's more than thousand-year history including the Hanseatic period, of gold, copper and iron mining on the Eisenberg, and of the prehistory and early history of Waldeck. Known far beyond the region are the roughly 250-million-year-old vertebrate fossils from the Korbacher Spalte (Korbach Fissure), including remains of the mammal-like Procynosuchus. Since 2015 the GeoFoyer Kalkturm at the find site has been part of the museum as a satellite site, and since 2017 so has the film archive of the media artist Thomas Henke. The collection comprises about 30,000 objects.
| Voksne | 4 € |
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| Nedsat pris | 2,50 €University students, apprentices, jobseekers, refugees, recipients of Bürgergeld (basic income support), and holders of an Ehrenamts-Card (volunteer card) or a severe disability ID (Schwerbehindertenausweis) |
| Børn og unge | 2 €gratis til og med 5 år · Young people up to 17: €2. |
| Pensionister | –No separate senior discount listed. |
| Personer med handicap | 2,50 €Reduced admission with a severe disability ID. |
| Studerende og elever | 2,50 €Students of the University of Kassel free. |
| Grupper (fra 10 pers.) | 3 € pr. personSchool classes free. Group tours from €30 (school classes) or €65 (adults) per group, including admission. |
| Familier | 9 €2 adults with children. |
| Annual pass, adults | 17 € |
| Annual pass, families | 30 € |
| Guided tour of the Korbacher Spalte and GeoFoyer Kalkturm (April–October Sun 11:15, July/August also Mon 16:30) | 4 €Young people aged 6–17 €2, children under 6 free; entitles you to reduced museum admission. |
The museum ticket is also valid for the GeoFoyer Kalkturm Korbach (otherwise €1). Free admission with the guest cards MeineCardPlus, AuszeitCardPlus, Sauerland SommerCard and the Willinger Familienpass, as well as for members of the Bürgerverein St. Kilian, ICOM, DMB and FSJ volunteers.
According to the Korbach tourist information office, largely accessible, with wheelchair-accessible entrance and accessible restroom.
Velegnet til børn og familier
| Entré for børn | gratis til og med 5 år |
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| Familiebillet | 9 € · 2 adults with children. |
The museum describes itself as child-friendly: hands-on stations marked in yellow, a fairy-tale cave with magnifying glasses and microscopes, and two age-graded museum scavenger hunts for 7- to 12-year-olds with small prizes. Children's birthday parties and group programs such as gold panning, fossil digging, and an adventure tour through the Old Town.
Betalingsparkering
Enser Straße parking lot directly next to the museum (26 car spaces, 1 coach space); paid Mon–Fri 8:00–19:00 and Sat 8:00–14:00.
Museet har ikke offentliggjort oplysninger om dette – spørg venligst museet direkte.
Museet har ikke offentliggjort oplysninger om dette – spørg venligst museet direkte.
| Rundvisninger | ja |
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| Tilbud til skoler | ja |
| Godt at vide | Regular public guided tours of the permanent exhibition at no extra charge and without booking (dates under "Aktuelles und Veranstaltungen"). Group and school tours (including town history, mining, the Korbacher Spalte, a Hanseatic walk, and combined tours to the fossil site) by arrangement. |
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