Historical Hanseatic city on the Warnow, craftsman's city, industrial city, seat of an old university and center of a strong bourgeoisie in the past, modern center on the southern Baltic Sea in the present - catchwords, what Rostock was and is, there were and are many. The exhibition looks behind the scenes of the history of the city and its citizens between 1200 and 1850, asking what they lived on, who ruled them, what they believed in, where they lived, what shaped them.
The exhibition invites visitors on a journey through 650 years of Rostock's development. The exhibits tell of political struggles and cultural upheavals, of the lives of the poor and the rich, of times of prosperity as well as of dark chapters in Rostock's city history.
