The cold and frost are just around the corner...
...and where better to amuse yourself than in the Romantic Cities!
Temperatures are dropping and it’s time to take our leave of the summer. As the sunny days outdoors and the mild nights slowly fade away, will boredom kick in? Are indoor activities dull? Not at all in the Romantic Cities! Be it the diverse and interactive museums, exciting underwater worlds or enthralling theatre performances, there is much to do indoors in autumn!
The Middle Rhine Museum is right in the heart of Koblenz. You can dream your way through the most diverse epochs of art history: from medieval paintings to sculptures, all aspects of the city’s history and culture are addressed. However, if this is too abstract for you, a detour to the Romanticum would be well worth your while: immerse yourself into an interactive exhibition of the Middle Rhine Valley and experience it from completely different perspectives.
The Karl Marx anniversary is far from over. In addition to the large state exhibition at the Rhenish Landesmuseum (state museum) and the local St Simeon’s Collegiate Church in Trier a free museum rally awaits little Marx fans at all four exhibition venues. And if you really don’t fancy Karl Marx, you can always visit Germany’s oldest wine cellar in the Vereinigte Hospitien (United Hospices) on Wednesdays and Fridays to taste some of the renowned estate’s wines.
Gemstones sparkle in the dim autumn light at the sheltered gemstone digging site of the Edelstein Adventure World in Idar-Oberstein. A particularly special highlight is the “Gemstone Digging Site” where you can go in search of real gemstones regardless of the weather. Prospect for them and take any you find home with you! If you have no luck prospecting for gemstones, you can visit the 500-square-metre showroom displaying a large selection of silver and gold jewellery, or attend a free demonstration to learn how to polish gemstones.
The Nibelung Festival is over and people tend to stay indoors. What could be more exciting than the Nibelung Museum in Worms? Ancient legend retold with modern multimedia technology awaits you here. A multimedia guide leads you through the museum housed in two picturesque towers on the Staufer-period city walls - it’s just like entering a world narrated by an audio book. These walls, which surrounded and defended the then mighty 12th-century Worms, could have been the very walls where the unknown poet recorded the 39 aventiuren (cantos) of the Song of the Nibelungs in 1200.
If you still haven’t had enough of museums or famous people, you should pay Johannes Gutenberg a visit: he is the inventor of movable type printing and probably the most famous son of the city of Mainz. The Gutenberg Museum of printing, books and writings of all cultures located in the city centre is dedicated to him. Would you like to become a typesetter and printer? No problem! In the printing press, the museum’s pedagogical workshop, anyone can learn how to print and take their own handmade masterpiece home with them.
SEA LIFE, a large aquarium in Speyer, is another special indoor experience. You can immerse yourself in the fascinating diversity of the indigenous underwater world and the depths of the tropical oceans, and view 3,500 aquatic creatures up-close in more than 40 tanks spread over an area of 2,000 square metres. Exclusive tip: Underwater wine tasting, which will be held on 13 October and 17 November!
‘Welcome@HotelGlobal’, a temporary exhibition at the Koblenz Landesmuseum, is an interactive adventure for all explorers that will run until the beginning of November. You will journey through elaborately designed thematic rooms containing personalities from the worlds of business, culture and society who address their workplaces and the various related opportunities and problems of a globalised world. Children can actively participate in the work and subsequently evaluate it. Meanwhile, adults can follow the trail of Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen, the conceiver of the modern cooperative: the interactive stations of the ‘Tradition Raiffeisen: Wirtschaft Neu Denken’ (Raiffeisen Tradition: Rethinking the Economy) temporary exhibition guide you through the conception and development of the cooperative, and encourage you to reflect on the current economic system. If you’re interested in the roots of archaeology, you should visit the ‘vorZEITEN’ (Prehistory) exhibition: you will be amazed at the finds and archaeological treasures dating back millions of years, from the earliest forms of life right up to the first urban areas on the Rhine and Moselle.
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