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Burg Dankwarderode
Heinrich's former Burg Dankwarderode is now a museum. It houses a glittering medieval collection, including golden sculptures of arms, medieval capes, and the original bronze lion statue cast in 1166. Upstairs is a huge, spectacularly adorned Knights' Hall.
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Dom St Blasii
Heinrich's tomb is in the crypt of Dom St Blasii, where he lies alongside his wife Mathilde. In a macabre postscript to the duke's life, the Nazis decided to co-opt his image and in 1935 exhumed his tomb to conduct an 'archaeological investigation'. Even Hitler paid a visit. However, the corpse found inside had one leg shorter than the other (it's known that Heinrich suffered a terrible horse-riding accident late in life) and dark hair, and the master-race propagandists went very quiet on the subject after that. There were also questions over the body's gender and some doubt as to whether it's really Heinrich in the sarcophagus.
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Happy Rizzi House
Don't miss the arty Magniviertel quarter around the 11th-century Magnikirche (Am Magnitor). Restaurants and bars have colonised the area's many restored half-timbered houses and there are some great boutique stores. Particularly eye-catching is the Happy Rizzi House, actually three colourful buildings decorated by American pop artist James Rizzi. Hearts are a recurring theme on the façade, while curved windows form integral parts of facial murals.
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Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum
Braunschweig is not always about Heinrich der Löwe. Another duke, Anton Ulrich (1633-1714) left Braunschweig with an impressive legacy, too. Like Bruce Chatwin's compulsive collector Utz, Anton Ulrich had an eye for miniature porcelain figures - as well as for crockery, furniture and all types of painting, from Chinese to European. Now the thousands of pieces he assembled in his lifetime are found in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum.
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Landesmuseum
The city's Landesmuseum covers German history from a local perspective. It's particularly engaging if you understand German, but also has some visual displays, such as the zweihundert Milliarden (200 billion) and zwanzig Millionen (20 million) mark notes from the inflationary days of the Weimar Republic and the huge statue of Heinrich der Löwe made from nails, that will appeal to all.
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