The Department of Culture is a full subsidiary of the Town of Arnstadt. As an independent institution of Arnstadt Town Council, it is structured as a self-governing municipal undertaking. Incorporated within it are all the cultural facilities of the town – the Town and District Library, the Palace Museum, the „Fasanerie“ zoological garden and the Palace Park Theatre – which are all supported and run by it. The Department of Culture employs its own staff for the Town and District Library, the Palace Museum and the Zoological garden as well as for the Cultural Office itself. The „Palace Park Theatre“ is run by the Arnstadt Theatre Society Inc.
The various facilities of the Department of Culture serve the community exclusively, with the aim of securing and supporting the intellectual and cultural activities of the citizens and visitors of the Town of Arnstadt by maintaining, developing and supporting the cultural life, the cultural facilities, the leisure and recreational events as well as enabling, securing and fostering the cultural assets.
The many-sided opportunities for taking advantage of the various facilities are regulated by the individual statutes of each facility. The Charter of the Town of Arnstadt Department of Culture of the can be accessed by following the links of the respective facility.
Organisation
The Department of Culture is a full subsidiary of the
Library
Since the restoration of the venerable Prinzenhof in
Bach-Exhibition
With the exhibition "BACH IN ARNSTADT" in the Palace
Schlossmuseum
The Palace Museum in Arnstadt is associated above all
Theatre
Since 1842 when, on the orders of Günther Friedrich
Zoo
On the south side of the town the "Fasanerie"
Organisation
The Department of Culture is a full subsidiary of the Town of Arnstadt. As an independent institution of Arnstadt Town Council, it is structured as a self-governing municipal undertaking. Incorporated
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Library
Since the restoration of the venerable Prinzenhof in 1994, Arnstadt Town and District library has lodged and received its guests in the historic rooms of the three-tract building complex.The library i
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Bach-Exhibition
With the exhibition "BACH IN ARNSTADT" in the Palace Museum (Schlossmuseum) Arnstadt, the former Palace of Countess Elisabeth Albertine and her husband Count Günther I of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, i
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Schlossmuseum
The Palace Museum in Arnstadt is associated above all with the name of a unique figurine collection: "Mon plaisir". Every year thousands of visitors find their way to the exhibition galleries of this
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Theatre
Since 1842 when, on the orders of Günther Friedrich Karl II, the royal hippodrome was converted into a theatre, the Palace garden theatre has experienced through the years many highs and lows and was
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Zoo
On the south side of the town the "Fasanerie" (Pheasantry) zoological park was opened in 1956, in which 55 animal species live in an area of ca. 2,5 hectares. Indigenous species such as fallow deer, m
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