In the middle of the city of Kassel and in the heart of Germany, GRIMMWELT Kassel is the world’s largest exhibition house dedicated to the life’s work of the Brothers Grimm. As a cultural, leisure, and educational institution as well as an event location, GRIMMWELT invites you to discover, learn, and experience.
© GRIMMWELT Kassel | Foto: Sascha Mannel
© GRIMMWELT Kassel | © Henrik Schrat, »Die Anderen«, 2021 | Foto: Nikolaus Frank
© GRIMMWELT Kassel | Foto: Jan Bitter
© GRIMMWELT Kassel | Foto: Jan Bitter
Experience-oriented, surprising, innovative, modern, and accessible, GRIMMWELT Kassel presents the fascinating life and work of the famous fairy tale collectors and linguists Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.
An exciting combination of historical objects, modern artworks, and hands-on installations make it a place of exploration, learning, and active experience.
Playful and informative approaches as well as linguistic, literary, and cultural studies perspectives allow visitors to gain new insights into the lives of the brothers.
GRIMMWELT Kassel is aimed at children, young people, and adults, families and school classes, experts and laypeople, art and language enthusiasts, fairy tale connoisseurs and GRIMM fans, and travellers and people with a special connection to Kassel.
A varied programme of guided tours, readings, and other events tailored to the current special exhibition as well as offers that can be used and booked individually allows visitors to explore new worlds of knowledge.
The offers and educational programme are adapted to different target groups and individual needs.
GRIMMWELT Kassel builds bridges between culture and literature into the world of the public. It makes the creative life and work of the Brothers Grimm accessible to a broad public. To this end, it focuses on the lively communication of language and literature and does not stop at the presentation of the historical.
The experience-oriented mediation invites you to find your own solutions and ways of expression, to perceive trends and changes, and to understand and classify developments. Visitors should be motivated to actively explore content, to collect positive learning experiences, and to experience eureka effects.
Jan Sauerwald |
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Lina Schmidt |
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Christine Grossberndt |
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Julia Ronge |
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Stefanie Büscher |
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Rolf Tonhäuser |
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Johanna Rüskamp |
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Alongside the documenta and the UNESCO World Heritage Site Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe, GRIMMWELT is one of the most important trademarks of the city of Kassel.
The building quickly became a magnet for visitors. Because the modern building is also part of the visitor experience. As a walk-in sculpture with a publicly accessible staircase that ends in a 2,000 m² roof terrace with a breathtaking view of the Südstadt of Kassel all the way to the Hercules, a special building that is well worth discovering has been created.
The spectacular and award-winning staircase architecture by the renowned Aachen-based architectural firm kadawittfeldarchitektur continues inside with split-levels that provide exciting and unexpected insights into the exhibitions time and again. The centre of GRIMMWELT is the foyer, which runs through the building as an elongated space and ends in the light-flooded Café FALADA with a panoramic view.
The world of experience of the permanent exhibition extends over about 1,200 m² on two levels. The changing special exhibitions are presented on a further 330 m².
© GRIMMWELT Kassel | Foto: Jan Bitter
Developer: |
City of Kassel |
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Architecture: |
kadawittfeldarchitektur |
Exhibition design: |
Holzer Kobler Architects |
Exhibition concept: |
hürlimann + lepp exhibitions |
05 | 2020 |
Special exhibition “FINSTERWALD” |
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11 | 2019 |
Special exhibition “FINSTERWALD” |
2017 |
Among the four finalists of the DAM, Prize of the German Architecture Museum |
01 | 2017 |
Special prize as part of the 2017 Tourism Award, GrimmHeimat NordHessen |
24 | 03 | 2017 |
12th Nordhessischer Marketingpreis, Marketingclub Nordhesse |
29 | 07 | 2017 |
“Special Mention” for GRIMMWELT Kassel as an employer brand in the category “Excellence in Brand Strategy, Management and Creation” of the “German Brand Award 2017” |
2016 |
»German Brand Award 2016« |
2016 |
polis Award 2016 for Urban and Real Estate Development in the “Liveable Open Space” category |
2016 |
Commendation of the German Urban Development Award for the Weinberg area and the successful integration of GRIMMWELT |
2015 |
“Building of the Year 2015”, online voting of the architecture magazine “German Architects” |
2015 |
»10 of the best new museums 2015«, The Guardian |
2015 |
»10 Biggest Museum Openings of the Year«, Condé Nast Traveler 2015 |
Looking back on more than ten years of project preparation, three years of realization, and an exciting and successful time since the opening of the GRIMM WORLD Kassel, we are grateful to the numerous sponsors, patrons, supporters, network partners, and for all inspiration.
For the realization of the GRIMM WORLD Kassel, we should like to express our particular thanks and appreciation to:
From the outset, it was a priority for the GRIMM WORLD Kassel to form a network. Cooperation and interaction was propagated from the very beginning – with artists, visitors and institutions, both from the town and the university, with museums, libraries and schools.
Here reference must be made to the »decentralised« concept of the city of Kassel, which collects and preserves the Grimm's heritage as the owner of the Grimm Collection, while the University of Kassel is a pioneer in research with its Chair for the Life and Work of the Brothers Grimm, founded in 2012 and unique in the whole of Germany. The limited company »GRIMMWELT Kassel gGmbH« is responsible for the presentation and communication of the Grimms’ work in all its facets to a wide and international public. Together these partners work together, bringing in their respective specific competencies and resources in the interests of the common goal.
The GRIMM WORLD Kassel relies on a network of local and regional partners. These include Kassel Marketing, the administration of the Kassel district, »GrimmHeimat NordHessen«, the German Fairy Tale Route, and local and regional companies
