Städtisches Museum Seesen

The museum of the town of Seesen has been housed here since 1964. In its immediate vicinity, Sehusa Castle, the Ratskeller - the town hall for centuries - and the castle church of St. Andreas come together to form a romantic group picture.
Seesen, the small town on the edge of the Harz Mountains, has made its mark many times in the past. From Seesen, many ideas and innovations have found their way into the world:

• In Seesen, the first German tin cans were produced by master plumber Züchner in 1830.
• Israel Jacobson founded a reform school in 1801, which became the birthplace and symbol of liberal Judaism with its place of worship, the "Jacobstempel".
• Louis Spohr begins his musical career on the violin here in his early childhood years, which leads him to become a celebrated performer and composer of the Biedermeier period on the stages of Europe.
• Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg builds his first pianos in Seesen.
  In 1850, he emigrates to New York with his family. His instruments conquered the concert halls of the world under the name "Steinway & Sons".

You can also learn a lot about Seesen's "moving townscape" in the town museum: Nature and man are constantly reshaping the landscape. Sinkholes and fires have left their mark on the Harz town, as have the new transportation routes of the railway and freeway.

From a geological perspective, the nearby Harz is one of the oldest and most interesting regions on earth. The museum has been designated a geopoint of the "Harz - Braunschweiger Land  - Ostfalen" geopark since 2007, partly due to its outstanding mineral collection. Regularly changing special exhibitions by visual artists and on cultural and local history topics complement the permanent exhibitions.
Admission is free / donations requested