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The German Football Museum sits directly opposite Dortmund Hauptbahnhof, so the exhibition begins the moment you leave the station. This guide covers what is on display, how admission and guided tours fit together, and whether the collection rewards visitors who have no interest in football.

The Hohes Schloss is a late-Gothic prince-bishop's residence sitting above Füssen's old town. This guide explains what the painted courtyard shows, which collections occupy the interior, how the tower views work and how to check the current schedule before you travel.

Passau's compact old town funnels wet-weather visitors toward three strong indoor anchors: St. Stephen's Cathedral with its vast organ, the Oberhausmuseum inside Veste Oberhaus, and the Glass Museum. This guide sequences them, flags the restoration caveat, and explains which outdoor plans to reshuffle if the sky clears.

The Westfälisches Pferdemuseum sits inside the Allwetterzoo Münster rather than in the city centre, and the operator states that zoo admission already includes the museum, its special exhibitions and horse shows. This guide explains the two seasonal opening windows, the thousand-square-metre permanent exhibition, the simulator stations and the arena programme.

The Carl Bosch Museum is a technology history museum in Heidelberg devoted to the chemist and Nobel laureate Carl Bosch (1874-1940), housed in his former garage house. This guide separates the permanent exhibition, the annually changing special exhibition at the Museum am Gingko, and travelling shows hosted elsewhere in Germany.

The Hetjens – Deutsches Keramikmuseum holds ceramics from around the world, with exhibits up to 8,000 years old, and its collection has been publicly accessible in Düsseldorf since 1909. It sits at Schulstraße 4 in the city centre, which makes it an easy stop within a walking day rather than a separate excursion.

The European Hansemuseum occupies almost 12,000 square metres on Lübeck's Castle Hill, joining a prize-winning modern building to the restored Burgkloster. The permanent exhibition uses staged scenes, original artefacts and interactive features, structured around the four Kontore, with guidance in German, English, Russian and Swedish.

The Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover (Landesmuseum Hannover) gathers art, natural history and archaeology under one roof, so a visit means choosing which collection gets your best hours. This guide explains the three wings, the ticket structure and how to pick your starting point.

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