Since 2004, the north-west wing of Callenberg Castle in the Beiersdorf district of Coburg has been home to the German Shooting Museum. It is run by the German Shooting Association and displays fascinating exhibits from the long tradition of German shooting on 300 square metres of exhibition space. The most valuable exhibits include one of the most famous shooting discs "Red Man" from Kronach (1720), two pistols from Pierre de Coubertin - founder of the modern Olympic Games - a collection of original torches from the Olympic Games (Berlin 1936, Munich 1972) and all the torches from the Summer Games from Seoul 1988 to Beijing 2008. Visitors can get active themselves: There is an archery range simulator on the 2nd floor of the museum.
The German Shooting Association founded a German Shooting Museum in Nuremberg back in 1897, housed in a patrician house on Albrecht-Dürer-Platz. After the total loss of the collection during the Third Reich and in the turmoil of the Second World War, which only a few items survived in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg, the German Shooting Association built up a new collection.
Deutsches Schützenmuseum
im Schloss Callenberg, Callenberg 1
96450 Coburg
Telefon +49 (0) 95 61/ 55 15-0
Telefax +49 (0) 95 61/ 55 15-55
www.schloss-callenberg.com
Memorial site of Friedrich Rückert - the poet and orientalist born in 1788 in Schweinfurt lived up to his death in 1866 in an estate in Neuses near Coburg. The intact study and poetry room is open to the public as a memorial site. The monument in the adjacent Rückert park reminds of the writer who wrote thousands of poems - an extensive work of wonderful, crazy, moving, and also lost poems of German literature.
Friedrich-Rückert-Gedächtnisstätte
Friedrich-Rückert-Straße 13
96450 Coburg
Telefon +49 (0) 95 61/ 66 308
www.coburgmarketing.de
The museum, opened in 1994, gives insight into the oldest parts of the town: fundaments, wall fragments and a painted reconstruction of the churchyard with the Geyers tower, school and provost's church of the middle ages. It documents a part of the town's history on the grounds of the former churchyard of the Moriz church.
Grabungsmuseum am Kirchhof
Steingasse 5
96450 Coburg
Telefon +49 (0) 95 61/ 89 14 74
stadtarchiv@oburg.de
www.coburg.de
Art Collection of the Veste Coburg - the Veste Coburg is one of the biggest castle buildings of Germany and accommodated guests like the reformer Luther who worked here for his Bible translation. Today, the castle contains one of the most important art- and cultural-historical collections of Germany with exhibits of the highest quality. Among the rest, the museum encloses the Hall of Hunting Weapons and a Glass Collection as well as a Hall of Coaches and Sledgescarriage. The Art of the German Renaissance with paintings of Lucas Cranach, Dürer or Holbein is also to be seen among the artworks.
Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg
Veste Coburg
96450 Coburg
Telefon +49 (0) 95 61/ 879-0
sekretariat@kunstsammlungen-coburg.de
www.kunstsammlungen-coburg.de
Changing exhibitions with contemporary art as well as recitals, concerts and workshops
Kunstverein Coburg Ausstellungspavillon
Pavillon des Kunstvereins im Hofgarten, Approach via Leopoldstraße
96450 Coburg
kv.coburg@gmail.com
www.kunstverein-coburg.de
The Natural History Museum Coburg is located on the premises of the court garden. With 700,000 collection units and an exhibition of 2,400 square metres it has the rating of a national museum. The exhibitions show among other things minerals, fossils, home animals and plants, prehistoric men and ethnology. All subject areas are illustrated with big pictures and models, e.g. a replica of an African hut, or of a the mineral tunnel for children.
Naturkunde-Museum
Park 6
96450 Coburg
Telefon +49 (0) 95 61/ 80 81-0
Telefax +49 (0) 95 61/ 80 81-40
info@naturkunde-museum-coburg.de
www.naturkunde-museum-coburg.de
The palace and its precious equipment tell the exciting story of the dukes of Coburg before, during and after Prince Albert and Queen Victoria.
Special higlights include the chapel, cabinets, the "beletage", the red parlor and the rose garden. The exhibition of the "Herzog von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha'schen Familie" Foundation comprises paintings, porcelain, a selection of armour and valuable furniture and numerous copies of "Röntgen" furniture, among others a rare piano.
In the new permanent exhibition, the Ducal Clock Collection presents a varied selection of timepieces from different centuries and mediates between past and present of the house of Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha.
Stiftung der Herzog von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha´schen Familie Herzoglicher Kunstbesitz SCG Schloss Callenberg
Callenberg 1
96450 Coburg
Telefon Telefon +49 (0) 95 61/ 55 15-0
Telefax Telefax +49 (0) 95 61/ 55 15-55
mail@schloss-callenberg.de
www.schloss-callenberg.com