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Kunstpalais

A small but good museum of modern art with changing exhibitions, run by the city. Shares the former city hall and beautiful building in its own right Palais Sutterheim with the municipal library.

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Address: Palais Sutterheim, Marktplatz 1
Getting there: south-western end of the central market square (Marktplatz/Schlossplatz, with Hauptstraße passing through)
Hours: Tue Thu-Sun 10:00-18:00, Wed 10:00-20:00
Price: €4, reduced rate €2
Website: kunstpalais.de (opens in a new tab)

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Palais Stutterheim
Built 1728 through 1730 for Amtshauptmann Christian Hieronymus von Stutterheim based on sketches by Wenzel Perner. Used as town hall between 1836 and 1971. Today, it hosts the museum Kunstpalais and the city's public library, which offers a magnificent public place to read magazines and newspapers. The University has a small but still impressive assortment of non-German language books as well as resources for language learning.
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