Gotha - Museen

The former Mariae Magdalenae hospital is hidden behind a beautiful Baroque portal. Saint Elisabeth personally had a facility built here to care for...

As the name suggests, the Buttermarkt used to be a trading place for dairy products and meat. Today the small, gorgeous square is lined with cafés and...

Friedenstein Palace towers over the city with its differently shaped corner towers as a landmark that can be seen from afar. Ernest the Pious laid the...

The fact that Gotha’s dukes staged their Friedenstein Palace as a pre-eminent centre of artistic endeavour is not just made clear by their passion for...

Gotha’s dukes didn’t just have a sense and taste for art objects but also fostered a keen interest in researching natural history. Parts of the large...

The palace museum in the north and west wing mainly displays the unchanged chambers of the Dukes of Saxe-Coburg-Altenburg and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha as...

On the way from the train station to the city centre, the road divides the grand Baroque ensemble of the Friedrichsthal Palace and the orangery...

This stately building on the Unterer Hauptmarkt on the corner of Marktstraße has seen some turbulent times. The foundation stone was already laid in...

The writer and cultural historian Gustav Freytag lived in Gotha’s Siebleben district today for many years and wrote many of his most important works...