Fodor's Expert Review Münchhausen Museum

Bodenwerder History Museum
Münchhausen Museum, Bodenwerder, The Fairy-Tale Road, Germany, Europe.

Housed in an old, renovated farm building right next to the imposing family home in which Baron von Münchhausen grew up (it's now the Rathaus), the Münchhausen Museum is crammed with mementos of his adventurous life, including his cannonball. A fountain in front of the house represents another story. The baron, it seems, was puzzled when his horse kept drinking insatiably at a trough. Investigating, he discovered that the horse had been cut in two by a closing castle gate and that the water ran out as fast as the horse drank. The water in the fountain, of course, flows from the rear half of a horse.

History Museum

Quick Facts

Münchhausenpl. 1
Bodenwerder, Lower Saxony  37619, Germany

- 05533 - 409–147

muenchhausen-museum-bodenwerder.de

Sight Details:
Rate Includes: Museum €4.50, Closed Nov.–Easter

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