German Salt Museum

Everybody knows about salt!

Salt is white, salt makes
you thirsty, salt is odourless, salt doesn’t cost much, salt is an insignificant
white speck. But this very speck makes life possible on Earth in the first place.
Salt is a building block of life and vital for our body.

As one of the oldest cultural
assets, it has played a decisive role in the history of mankind. It is not for nothing
that it bears the nickname "white gold". Even today it is still a significant
component of our everyday world, our thinking and our language.

Reason enough to give
it its due!

But why Lüneburg?

Lüneburg is the salt town
of the North. For over 1000 years salt ruled the life of the town. It made the town
rich and powerful. The salt works, one of the oldest and largest industrial concerns
in Europe, only closed its doors in 1980. Since then the German Salt Museum/Saltworks
Industrial Monument reminds Lüneburg of its illustrious past.

The visitor will learn
all that is worth knowing, interesting, and exciting as well as what is curious about
the subject of "salt" in a vivid, and not at all museum-like, way. The
museum does keep you at arm’s length, it truly affects you. Affected by the fascinating
world of salt that, although it surrounds us daily, but of which we are only too
seldom aware.

Not everybody knows about
salt!

Two special exhibitions
can be seen at present in the Salt Museum’s grounds.

For example, there is
a really special exhibition in a building made of 16 large sea containers. Here
the title is "Packed. Opened up. Inspected.
Lüneburg, the Salt House of the Hanseatic
League. Packed into 16 containers". Lüneburg’s Hanseatic history is vividly
presented and explains what a significant role the salt, white gold, played in this.

Such a beautiful time!?
The 1950s in Lüneburg
are the subject of the second special exhibition. A complete apartment in
the style of the 1950s shows visitors the everyday, and domestic, culture of this
time.

Daily guided tours for individual guests (duration about 1 hour)

October – March:

Mon – Sun 11:30 and 14:30

April – September:

Mon – Fri: 11:00,
12:30 and 14:30

Sat and Sun: 11:30 and 14:30

As well as groups by arrangement,
booking required

Historic salt boiling with guided tour

May to September

Guided tours in foreign languages and the
Low German dialect

You can also book a guided
tour of the museum and one of the town of salt in English and French as well as
in the Low German dialect. The prices are slightly higher.