Still open until November 4, 2018
.Historically grown Hanseatic city at the mouth of the Warnow River, craftsmen's town, industrial city, district capital and gateway to the world of the GDR, brick Gothic urban space, seat of an old university and center of a strong middle class in the past. Modern center on the southern Baltic Sea in the present. Formative characteristics and descriptions of what the city was and is, there were and are many for Rostock.
With the Rostock Museum of Cultural History, the city has one of the large municipal museums in northern Germany. The house opens the view on the city's anniversary in 2018 with the special exhibition from its own holdings, which demonstrate the history of the city and the region in an impressive way with their exhibits, as well as with targeted loans and partnerships. The exhibits, which have been preserved by generations, tell known and unknown stories from history, new and long known in a new way.
The exhibition addresses questions to Rostock's history. It looks behind the scenes of a city and its citizens, explains what they lived on, who ruled them, what they believed in, where they lived; asks where they came from and what shaped them. On these and other topics, the exhibition seeks answers and tries to describe what Rostock is.
Specularly, individual topics as well as important events are illuminated and deepened. The focus is on selected exhibits of art and cultural history as unique and eloquent testimonies to the development of the city of Rostock over "800 years".
