Seesen · Museum
Städtisches Museum Seesen as a 3D tour
Since 1964 Seesen has presented its history in the former ducal hunting lodge — from Steinway and Louis Spohr to the Jacobson School.
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History
The Städtisches Museum Seesen, the town’s municipal museum, occupies the former hunting lodge of the Dukes of Brunswick on Wilhelmsplatz — a two-storey, timber-framed building with a hipped roof, dating from the 18th century. The forestry administration later moved in; in 1964 the town took over the building and set up its local history museum there, and in 2010 the exhibition rooms were redesigned. A virtual tour offers a first look inside.
The exhibition introduces people from Seesen. Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg built his first pianos here and emigrated to New York in 1850, where his instruments became world-famous under the name Steinway & Sons. The composer Louis Spohr grew up in Seesen, and in 1830 master tinsmith Heinrich Züchner made Germany’s first tin cans here.
Another focus is the Jacobson School, founded by Israel Jacobson in 1801 and a cradle of Reform Judaism, including a model of the Jacobstempel synagogue destroyed in 1938. The museum also holds an extensive mineral collection.
