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Kalmar Art Museum is a regional art museum run by the Kalmar Art Society and opened in 1942. Since 2008 it has occupied a black, four-storey timber-clad building in the City Park beside Kalmar Castle, designed by Tham & Videgård. It shows contemporary art and works from the society's collection, including Anders Zorn, Carl Larsson and Vera Nilsson.
Kalmar Cathedral stands on Stortorget on the island of Kvarnholmen and was designed by Nicodemus Tessin the Elder in a classical Baroque style. Building began in 1660, was interrupted by the Scanian War and was completed in 1703. The walls are of limestone from Gotland, and the corner towers carry copper-covered domes.
Museum founded in 1979 tracing printing from the early twentieth century to the technologies that replaced it, with Danish and German presses.
Kalmar County Museum is the regional museum of cultural history for Kalmar County, housed since 1987 in the former Kalmar steam mill by the harbour. One floor shows finds from the royal warship Kronan, which exploded and sank off Öland in 1676, including bronze cannons and coin hoards; other exhibitions cover the illustrator Jenny Nyström and the county's past.
Museum showcasing Esbjerg's history from 1900-1950, local resistance during German occupation, and the Hansen family during the occupation period.
Theatre society in Esbjerg, staging plays since the 1960s and a summer production every year since 1981, in the open air or under a circus tent.
Performing arts venue in Esbjerg hosting concerts, theatre, comedy and family shows.
Independent art museum founded in 1910, beside Musikhuset Esbjerg, showing Danish modern and contemporary art.
Historic Danish motor lightship moored at Esbjerg Strand, featuring authentic period furnishings and maritime heritage.
Privately owned museum in Esbjerg, open since 1968, with a saltwater aquarium of native species, a seal pool and exhibitions on Danish fishing and shipping.
Iron leading light at Sædding in Esbjerg, the second oldest iron lighthouse in Denmark and a listed building for its age and its rare type.
A black-and-white striped lighthouse on the island of Sylt, built from 1853 to 1856 on the orders of the Danish king and still an active navigational light 40 metres tall. It has been fully automated since 1977 and is no longer open for public visits, though it remains a well-known landmark of the Kampen dunes.
St. Severin is a Lutheran parish church in the Sylt village of Keitum, built in the Romanesque style and first recorded in 1240. Tree-ring tests dated its roof timbers to 1216, making it the oldest religious building in Schleswig-Holstein. Its squat 15th-century tower once doubled as a navigation mark for sailors and, later, a prison.
A reddish line of sea cliffs on Sylt's west coast, between the villages of Wenningstedt and Kampen, rising about 30 metres above the beach. The cliff formed from glacial till deposited roughly 120,000 years ago, and its rust-coloured iron-rich clay has long served sailors as a landmark for the island.
A Neolithic passage grave near Wenningstedt on Sylt, built around 3200-3000 BC and covered by an earth mound about 3.5 metres high. Twelve boulders and three capstones weighing around 20 tonnes each form the burial chamber, reached through a six-metre passage that visitors can still walk into.
A zoo in the Stellingen district, founded in 1907 by Carl Hagenbeck Jr. after his father began collecting animals arriving through Hamburg's port in 1863. It was the first zoo to use open enclosures separated by moats instead of barred cages, a design that influenced zoo architecture worldwide. The grounds also include a tropical aquarium.
Hamburger Kunsthalle is the art museum of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, one of the largest in Germany. It occupies three connected buildings dating from 1869, 1921 and 1997, between the Hauptbahnhof and the Alster lakes. Its collection spans seven centuries, from medieval North German painting to international contemporary art.
A 47-hectare park in central Hamburg, laid out on the site of the city's former fortifications; the first tree, a plane, was planted there in 1821. The modern park dates from 1933 and includes the Old Botanical Garden, a Japanese garden, a large playground and seasonal water-light concerts.
Chocoversum is a chocolate museum in Hamburg's Kontorhaus quarter, opposite the Speicherstadt and near the Chilehaus. Opened in December 2011, it offers a 90-minute guided tour covering cacao cultivation and chocolate production, ending with tastings of the finished product.
A ten-storey office building in Hamburg's Kontorhaus District, designed by architect Fritz Höger and built from 1922 to 1924 for shipping magnate Henry B. Sloman. Built with 4.8 million dark bricks, its narrow eastern end is shaped like a ship's prow, an example of 1920s Brick Expressionism. It became part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2015.
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