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district museum of local history

The 16th-century-Renaissance castle is displaying a modern museum with13 exhibition rooms on the regional of the Kyffhäuser region.

Visitors interested in biology will be especially fond of the geological exhibition of various forms of plaster karst and of the extremely rare flora of dry farming (Trockenrasengesell-schaft).There are also showrooms illustrating the topic salt, which was Bad Frankenhausen's life line for centuries. So you can inform about the development of the cure and bathing treatment from 1818 on (construction of the first bathhouse) 

Especially worth looking at is the exhibition on the history of the button and of the mother-of-pearl fabrication.