Museum sights in Heidelberg
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Deutsches Apotheken-Museum
The surprisingly interesting German Pharmacy Museum, off the Schlosshof, illustrates the history of Western pharmacology, in which Germany played a central role. Exhibits include pharmacies from the early 1700s and the Napoleonic era. Kids can use a mortar and a pestle to blend their own herbal tea (details available at the entrance). Most signs are in English.
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Kurpfälzisches Museum
The city-run Palatinate Museum has well-presented exhibits on Heidelberg’s eventful history and is especially strong on the Roman period – exhibits include original wood beams from a 3rd-century bridge. To learn about really ancient local life, check out the replica of the 600,000-year-old jawbone of Homo heidelbergensis (Heidelberg Man), unearthed about 18km southeast of here in 1907 (the original is stored across the river at the university’s palaeontology institute).
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Universitätsbibliothek
The University Library was built in massive Wilhelmian style from 1901 to 1905. Upstairs you can see rare books and prints from its superb collections in the corner Ausstellungsraum (exhibition room).
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Universitäts Museum
The three-room University Museum, inside the Alte Universität building, has paintings, portraits, documents and photos documenting the university’s mostly-illustrious history. Only the signs on the Third Reich period are in English but the admission fee includes an English audioguide.
You can visit the adjacent Alte Aula, a neo-Renaissance hall whose rich decoration dates from 1886.
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