Stadtmuseum Kassel, City museum in Kassel, Germany.
Stadtmuseum Kassel is a city museum that collects and displays objects from different time periods. The exhibition shows how the city, its residents, and society developed and changed across centuries.
Calls for a city museum date to the 19th century, but today's institution was decided by the city council on 3 July 1978. Karl-Hermann Wegner became director in February 1979 and led it until 2006. The first three rooms opened on 21 October 1983 in the Kulturhaus am Ständeplatz, where the museum remains.
The museum displays objects that reflect everyday life and social changes in the city across generations. Visitors can see how traditions and ways of living among Kassel's people developed over time.
The museum is easily accessible on foot and clearly marked in the city center. Inside there are resting areas and orientation boards to help visitors navigate the exhibition.
The museum's home was long planned as the Karlshospital, a listed building gutted by bombs in World War II and empty since; rising costs, from 4.5 to 9 million D-Mark, ended that plan. In December 1986 the city decided the museum would stay at its provisional site, the Kulturhaus am Ständeplatz 16, built 1869–1871, and the documenta archive had to vacate a floor to make room.
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