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Nov 14, 2024

　　This sometimes engaging chronicle of 1200 years of Münster milestones includes a room on the Anabaptist rebellion where you can see the once-red-hot tongs used to torture Jan van Leyden and his unlucky colleagues before their execution. Another highlight is the collection of town models showing how the city grew and changed from the 16th century onward.

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　　This sometimes engaging chronicle of 1200 years of Münster milestones includes a room on the Anabaptist rebellion where you can see the once-red-hot tongs used to torture Jan van Leyden and his unlucky colleagues before their execution. Another highlight is the collection of town models showing how the city grew...

Kunstmuseum Picasso

　　A treat for fans of Pablo Picasso, one of the 20th century's seminal artists, in this 18th-century neoclassical mansion whose changing exhibits are drawn from a prized collection of around 800 lithographic works. The museum also owns graphics by Georges Braque, Marc Chagall and Henri Matisse. 　　It's the only museum...

Überwasserkirche

　　The Überwasserkirche (officially known as Liebfrauenkirche) is a 14th-century Gothic hall church with handsome stained-glass windows in the apse. The nickname translates as 'church across the water' and was inspired by its former location outside the city walls, beyond the wee river Aa. ...

　　The two massive towers of Münster’s cathedral match the proportions of this 110m-long structure and the vast square it overlooks. It’s a three-nave construction built in the 13th century, when Gothic architecture began overtaking the Romanesque style in popularity. Enter from Domplatz via the porch (called the ‘Paradise’), richly festooned...

　　The Erbdrostenhof is a lavish mansion commissioned by a local baron and designed by Johann Conrad Schlaun (1695–1773), a master of the Westphalian baroque, a less exuberant expression of the style than in southern Germany. Step inside the foyer to get a sense of its grandeur. To see the lush...

LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur

　　After a harmonious fusion of the 1908 neo-Renaissance original with an airy postmodern wing, Münster's main museum for art and culture now has the proper digs to match its prized collection of works from the Middle Ages to our times. The undisputed highlight is the collection of boldly pigmented German...

St Lambertikirche

　　One of Münster’s finest churches, the late-Gothic St Lambertikirche was built in 1450. It's filled with wonderful treasures but the most fascinating attraction is the three wrought-iron cages dangling from the openwork spire. They once displayed the corpses of Anabaptist ringleader Jan van Leyden and two of his cohorts who...

Historisches Rathaus & Friedenssaal

　　Dominating Prinzipalmarkt, Münster's city hall played a key role in ending the calamitous Thirty Years' War when an important sub-treaty of the Peace of Westphalia was signed here in 1648. You can visit the place of the signing, the splendidly wood-carved Friedenssaal. ...

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