Museum sights in Weimar
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Neues Museum
The Neues Museum houses works of contemporary art in Weimar. The complex was built in 1863, as a gallery exclusively for works relating to Homer's Odyssey, but another odyssey occurred after it was used as a Halle der Volksgemeinschaft (literally 'people's solidarity hall') by the Nazis, and was then renamed Karl-Marx-Platz under the GDR.
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Goethe Nationalmuseum
Less about the great man of letters himself than his epoch, the Goethe Nationalmuseum focuses on the late 17th- and early 18th-century, a period referred to as Weimar Classicism. Goethe, Schiller, his ducal patrons (Anna Amalia and Carl August), his muse (Charlotte von Stein) and various cultural spear-carriers feature in this loose collection of paintings, books, busts, letters and other objets d'art.
Part of the museum complex, the Faustina café has a controversial Christoph Hodgson mural depicting Weimar's glorious Who's Who; lurking among the famous faces - with a couple of amusing touches - is one Adolf Hitler.
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Bauhaus Museum
Considering that Weimar is the birthplace of the influential Bauhaus school, the Bauhaus Museum is a rather modest affair. But if all goes according to plan, that'll change when it moves into splashy new digs in 2013. Meanwhile, the old building will present temporary exhibits on the group's profound impact on modern design and construction. How profound?
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Weimar Haus
The Weimar Haus is a history museum for people who hate history museums. Sets, sound and light effects, wax figures and even an animatronic Goethe accompany you on your 30-minute journey into Thuringia's past, from prehistory to the Enlightenment. The production values can be comical, but the entertainment factor is inarguably high.
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