Stadtmuseum Bad Cannstatt
The Stadtmuseum Bad Cannstatt presents Stuttgart’s oldest district through local history from prehistoric times to the present. The museum occupies Stuttgart’s medieval Klösterle building.
This half-timbered residence dates from 1463 and is regarded as Stuttgart’s oldest residential building. Its permanent exhibition, Panorama Cannstatt, follows the district as a Neckar town, royal city and literary centre. A Roman diorama depicts life in the province.
A detailed city model shows the medieval townscape that continued into the nineteenth century. Displays also examine bathing culture, early industrialisation and Cannstatt figures Wilhelm Bernhard Molique and Hermann Hesse. The museum began as a local history museum in 1959.
Cannstatt citizens helped create it, and it moved into the Klösterle in 1988. Special exhibitions explore further aspects of Cannstatt’s history. The Vereinigung Cannstatter Vereine and Pro Alt Cannstatt supported preservation of the Klösterle building. Only the Klösterle’s ground floor is wheelchair accessible. Guided tours are available on request for deeper insight into Bad Cannstatt’s history.
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