South Sauerland Museum

The traditional museum looks back on 120 years of history and is housed in the southernmost preserved Gothic Hanseatic house in Germany. The art and culture of southern Westfalen and the Olpe district are presented here in a multimedia and contemporary way. Ammonite and tin soldiers are just two of the many main exhibits worth seeing. What was life like in the Catholic hill country between castles, mills, hammer mills and monasteries?

The colorful and traditional history of the town of Attendorn includes the topics of guilds and customs. Visitors leave the hustle and bustle of the town behind them when they enter the exhibition unit on monastic culture. The Nikolai fraternity, from which Hanseatic merchants were recruited from the 13th century onwards, also established "contacts" with the world. "Church treasures" show the high art of gold and silversmiths from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. The tour ends at the Westfalen Tin Figure Cabinet.