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Front of the World Heritage House
© TZ Wismar, A. Rudolph
World-Heritage-Room
© TZ Wismar, A. Rudolph
Wallpaper room with stories
© TZ Wismar, A. Rudolph

Beschreibung

The old towns of Stralsund and Wismar have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2002. Both cities represent ideally developed urban complexes from the heyday of the Hanseatic League in the 14th century. The city centers, with their monumental brick churches and representative merchants' houses, have been able to preserve their medieval floor plan almost unchanged to this day.

Exhibition in the World Heritage House
The visitor center not only provides a vivid impression of the long history of the Hanseatic city of Wismar through the exhibition but is also itself a testimony to different eras. Since June 2014, residents and guests have been able to find out about UNESCO and the history of the Hanseatic city in the new World Heritage House. The visitor center is the third of its kind in Germany after Regensburg and Stralsund. On the ground floor, the World Heritage Room is the start of the tour through the World Heritage House. On benches that surround the city wall, you can experience the inlay of the city's floor plan on the floor and you can learn interesting facts from the exhibition content on the walls.
Special themed rooms with interactive work tables are dedicated to different focuses: "Citizens build their city", "Houses tell stories", “Rules shape this city", “Trade brings prosperity” and "Merchants invent the hall house". The visual highlight of the exhibition is the restored wallpaper room on the upper floor. 64 square meters of wall space is completely decorated with valuable French paper prints. The wallpaper cycle shows the mythological story “Telemachus’ journey to the island of Calypso”. The panoramic wallpaper from 1823 was designed by the artist Xavier Mader.

OPENING HOURS*
April to September daily 9 am to 5 pm
October to March daily 10 am to 4 pm 
*Subject to change, see notice at tourist information.