Events and Cultural venues in Osnabrück

Events

• Classic con brio.Ten-day chamber music festival in April with master classes, public rehearsals and concerts of the highest standard.
• European Media Art Festival. One of the most important forums for media art offers an up-to-date overview of themes and aesthetics.
• Euregio Musikfestival. Here you can experience tomorrow’s stars today – top fledgling artists from classic and more.
• Maiwoche. May Week Festival. Northern Germany’s unique inner city festival. 10 days of music, comedy and show in the open air.
• Summer in the city. Open air cabaret, film showings under the starry sky – a superior summer cultural programme.
• Orient Festival. Enthusiastic visitors and an echo in the international media. A cultural bridge between the Orient and the West.
• Osnabrück eats well. Gastronomes from Osnabrück and elsewhere serve regional and international specialities.
• Cultural Weeks. A world tour full of surprises. The highlight is the “Festival of Cultures” on the Market Square.
• Independent Film Festival. Masterpieces outside the mainstreams, focused on artistic merit. Awarding of the cinema Peace Price.
• Historic Christmas Market. Surveys prove it: it is the nicest in the north and the third most beautiful in Germany.

 

Cultural venues

• Town Hall of the Treaty of Westphalia. With Hall of Peace, treasure chamber and exhibition on Osnabrück’s destruction and reconstruction.
• Felix-Nussbaum-Haus. Designed by Daniel Libeskind, it is home to the works of Nussbaum who was born in Osnabrück and murdered in Auschwitz.
• Museum of Cultural History. Permanent exhibition on the development of Osnabrück and a graphic arts collection of Albrecht Dürer
• Villa Schlikker. In the “House of Remembering”, built around 1900, the culture of everyday life in the 20th century comes to life again.
• Art gallery Dominican Church. Built around 1300, is one of the most beautiful exhibition rooms for contemporary art in Germany.
• Erich Maria Remarque Peace Centre. Permanent exhibition on the life, works and global impact of the Osnabrück born author.
• Cathedral Treasure Chamber and Diocesan Museum. Both can be found in the southern wing of the cloister of the Romanesque St. Peter’s Cathedral.
• Schölerberg Museum for Nature and Environment, Planetarium. Natural science collections, permanent exhibit “underworlds” and more.
• Museum of Industrial Culture. The history of industrialisation in Osnabrück, housed in the buildings of a former coal mine.
• Buck’s Tower. A watchtower from the 13th century, once part of the city walls, with a small exhibition on the history of witch hunting.
  

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