Rommel Museum, Blaustein, Military history museum in Blaustein, Germany.
The Rommel Museum occupied rooms in Villa Lindenhof in the Herrlingen district of Blaustein, Baden-Württemberg. It displayed photographs, maps and plans of Second World War battlefields, written documents, and sand samples from El Alamein and Tobruk, and it housed the Rommel Archives. It closed in May 2019; the rooms now hold the Museum Lebenslinien.
The Rommel Museum opened in 1989 in Villa Lindenhof in the Herrlingen district of Blaustein, where Rommel's family lived during his service in North Africa, Italy and on the Atlantic Wall. It displayed documents, maps, pictures and sand samples from El Alamein and Tobruk, and housed the Rommel Archives. It closed in May 2019, and its rooms now hold the Museum Lebenslinien, which presents Rommel alongside figures such as Richard Riemerschmid, Gertrud Kantorowicz, Anna Essinger and Hugo Rosenthal.
Since 2019 the rooms of Villa Lindenhof have held the Museum Lebenslinien, which presents Rommel alongside other figures: the Jugendstil architect Richard Riemerschmid, the poet Gertrud Kantorowicz, the reform educator Anna Essinger and the German-Israeli educator Hugo Rosenthal. The earlier Rommel Museum showed sand samples from El Alamein and Tobruk.
The Rommel Museum closed in May 2019, so there is no visiting schedule or booking to arrange. Its rooms in the Villa Lindenhof in Herrlingen now hold the Museum Lebenslinien, which presents Rommel alongside figures such as the architect Richard Riemerschmid and the educator Anna Essinger. Visitors heading to the address should expect that successor exhibition, not the former Rommel displays.
The museum closed in May 2019; its rooms in Villa Lindenhof now hold the Museum Lebenslinien, which presents Rommel alongside figures such as the Jugendstil architect Richard Riemerschmid, the poet Gertrud Kantorowicz, the reform educator Anna Essinger and the German-Israeli educator Hugo Rosenthal.
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