Stadtmuseum Leun

About the museum

The Leun city museum came into being as part of village renewal. In 1982 the opportunity arose to acquire a vacant property next to the former town hall. The listed half-timbered house at Limburger Straße 3 was renovated and supplemented by a meeting place, to which a museum was to be attached. The initiative came from the mayor of the time. Museum and House of Encounter opened on November 17, 1984.

A volunteer working group formed in 1984 from interested residents of Leun built up the basic collection, which people gathered from households and workshops. Later, the attic of the half-timbered house was converted, and the neighboring barn bought by the town was added as a museum barn. Today the Verein für Heimatgeschichte Leun (local history association) looks after the museum.

The collections show town history, rural and middle-class domestic culture, and crafts and historic children's games across three floors. In the Old Town Hall, a spinning room with one of the largest egg cup collections in Hesse, along with a kitchen and living room from the 1950s, completes the picture. The barn holds a forge, a butcher's shop, a bakery and agricultural equipment.

Highlights

• Egg cup collection of more than 1,000 pieces, said by the museum to be the second largest in Hesse
• Fully equipped forge, butcher's shop and bakery in the museum barn
• Play room with historic toys, dolls' houses, electric train and Kasperl puppet theater
• Original charter granting town rights in 1664 and Celtic pottery finds
• Living rooms of the 19th and 20th centuries, with a "good room" and kitchen-living room

Permanent exhibitions

• Stadtgeschichte – Celtic pottery finds, medieval vessels, the 1664 charter granting town rights, a model of the Leun bridge, and finds from the battle of 1796.
• Bäuerliche und bürgerliche Wohnkultur – Kitchen, "good room" and bedroom of the 19th and 20th centuries, with furnishings from Leun.
• Landwirtschaft und ländliche Handwerke – In the museum barn: forge, butcher's shop, bakery with oven, beekeeping and agricultural machinery from the wooden plow to the threshing machine.

Founded

1984

Operated by

Verein für Heimatgeschichte Leun e. V.

Admission & discounts

Admission is free.

Admission is free.

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Kids & families

Great for kids & families

• Hands-on stations
• Playground / play area

On the attic floor, a play room with historic toys, an electric train, a Kasperl puppet theater, a shop, and a drawing and craft corner invite children to play.

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