Stadtmuseum


This town museum is located in the reconstructed Knochenhauerhaus, one of Germany’s most intricate half-timbered houses. Exhibits are spread over five floors, starting with changing exhibitions on the ground floor, leading into the town’s history, and ending with a silverware collection on the top floor.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby attractions

1. Dommuseum

0.29 MILES

This engaging museum showcases 1000 years of church history in the cloisters of World Heritage–listed Mariendom Cathedral. Its permanent exhibition From…

2. Mariendom

0.32 MILES

Hildesheim’s Unesco World Heritage–listed cathedral took its present form in 1061 and was virtually rebuilt after its WWII bombing, then reopened in 2014…

3. St Michaeliskirche

0.33 MILES

The Unesco-protected Church of St Michael was built in the Romanesque style in 1022 and reconstructed after war damage. Unusual features inside include…

4. Roemer-und-Pelizaeus Museum

0.38 MILES

This museum houses one of Europe’s best collections of Egyptian and Peruvian art and artefacts. There are dozens of mummies, scrolls, statues and wall…

5. Fachwerkviertel

0.42 MILES

Hildesheim's 'Half-Timbered Quarter' is but a shadow of its former self – before WWII some 1900 of these buildings stood here – but it's still a great…

6. Mahnmal Am Lappenberg

0.48 MILES

This large limestone cube decorated with marble Stars of David and allegorical figures serves as a sombre memorial to the atrocities committed against…

7. Schloss Marienburg

7.95 MILES

Perched grandly above the Leine River, the neo-Gothic Schloss Marienburg (built from 1858–67) was a present from Hanover's King George V to his wife Marie…

8. Fagus Werk

13.09 MILES

Designed and built by Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius in 1911, this factory, which has been producing shoe lasts for over 100 years, is regarded as the…

  • placement: superzone
  • path: Destinations/POIs/superzone
  • possible size: [970, 250], [970, 90], [728, 90], [1, 1],
  • targeting:
    {
      "url": "germany/hildesheim/attractions/stadtmuseum/a/poi-sig/1141413/1316484",
      "position": "superzone"
    }