Europäisches Hansemuseum, Historical museum in Old City, Lübeck, Germany.
The European Hanseatic Museum is a historical museum in Lübeck's Old City devoted to the medieval trading city. Its collections are spread across several buildings and display artifacts, documents, and finds from archaeological excavations.
The museum documents the medieval Hanseatic League, a network of merchant cities that controlled trade in Northern Europe starting in the 12th century. It opened in 2015 and shows how this trading community shaped Lübeck over centuries.
The exhibits show how merchants lived and worked through original objects and reconstructed medieval rooms. You see how trade shaped the city and what role these traders held in their communities.
The museum sits in the Old City and opens daily, with good pathways connecting the different buildings. It has elevators and wheelchair access in all areas.
In the basement of one building, visitors can see actual archaeological layers of Lübeck's earliest settlement, going back more than 1,000 years. These excavations reveal the buried remains on which the medieval city was constructed.
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