Museum sights in Heidelberg
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Deutsches Apothekenmuseum
Infinitely more fun than science lessons, the Deutsches Apothekenmuseum, off the courtyard, explores chemistry and pharmacology in centuries past. Look out for the hands-on kids' pharmacy (healthy tea anyone?) and miracle cures from opiates to, hmmm, unicorn. With a capacity of more than 220,000L, the 18th-century Grosses Fass (Great Vat) is the world's largest wine cask, shaped from 130 oak trees. Describing it as being 'as big as a cottage', Mark Twain bemoaned its emptiness and mused on its possible functions as a dance floor and gigantic cream churn.
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Kurpfälzisches Museum
Tucked behind a courtyard, the intriguing Kurpfälzisches Museum condenses regional history. Among the highlights are 15th- to 20th-century paintings, Roman and Merovingian artefacts and a copy of the 600,000-year-old Heidelberg Man's jawbone (the original is stored across the river at the palaeontology centre).
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