Fodor's Expert Review Brüder Grimm Museum
Editor's Note: This location is no longer in operation.
Despite the widespread destruction suffered by Kassel during World War II, some architectural gems remain. One of them, the 18th-century, baroque Palais Bellevue, is home to the city's Brothers Grimm Museum. Eschewing modern technology in its exhibits in favor of relics from the Grimm's family home and original illustrations of their stories, the museum seeks to create an authentic experience of what life was like in the brothers' time. Pride of place among the memorabilia is taken up by first and second editions of the brothers' collection of tales. There's plenty to excite younger visitors to the museum, too, and every three months it has a new interactive children's exhibition based on a different fairy tale originally recorded in German, English, Russian or Turkish.
